Baby D isn't feeling like going to sleep tonight so Mommy can sew something new for a Mother's Day outing tomorrow.
So as I sit here in the dark snuggling with him I thought I'd take a quick moment to say goodbye to some of the me-mades I used to know that aren't here for Me Made May 2015 any more because they've been lost or donated or recycled.
Some of these I am sad about, and to some I say: good riddance! My goal is to have a tightly edited closet/drawers full only of things I actually love to wear, and I can't hold onto the ill-fitting or unwearable just because I made them.
Goodbye wide-legged blue corduroy Vogue trousers (you didn't hit at the waist properly and my husband always hated you):
Goodbye McCall's 5529 chartreuse cardigan jacket — you did not fit at all and that doubleknit from Fabric.com was just the WORST:
Oh where are you now my beloved reversible shirred skirt in Maggy London purple geometric lawn on one side and black swiss dot lawn on the other? I lost you on vacation two years ago and I still miss you to this day. Come home to me, please!
Goodbye Burdastyle Melissa red pencil skirt — you wrinkled like crazy and always showed underwear lines. But I'll make you again — in ponte knit this time!
Oooh, baby is sleeping now! Time to sew.
P.S. You can see all my me-made-May outfits in this Flickr gallery — I don't know that I will have time to do weekly roundups this year.
I raise a post Mother's Day salute to your Fails and mine. Still wondering what I can make out of the felted, motheaten sweaters of my spouse. So far am stuffing them into ironing tools (sleeve rolls and their friends), after I have made DAMN sure they are not harboring Evil Moth Larvae. A monument might be possible.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear about that Maggy London skirt :-o Such a lovely skirt! Any chance the fabric is still available? Moth freak me out. Whenever I see one in the house I get the urge to wash my entire load of textile. I think that made me lose more clothes than losing them to moth damage (I don't do dry cleaning, because I think you can wash everything...well about 95% of stuff is washable, but some stuff really isn't...)
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