MMM 8-16

I can't believe I lost eight days! This last week was just a blur. There was soooo much going on. One night I actually went to sleep about 6 pm and woke up about 8 the next morning. Which was too bad because that was a day I was wearing something new and didn't get a picture... but no worries, I'll be wearing it tomorrow since it has a lot of green in it!

Last week we had two big events - a Sushi making class, which went great, and the big chili cookoff! The chili cookoff was so much fun! The girls from the shop competed with "Artsy Fartsy" chili, which was delicious, and Morgan was named Miss Chili Pepper for her costume. It was really fun hanging out with everyone.

So since it was a chili cookoff, and I was organizing the whole thing, I thought I should get into the spirit of chili and get back to my Texas roots. Mind you I own no cowboy boots or a cowboy hat... so it wasn't easy.

The skirt is another Anna Marie Horner Study Hall Skirt and the fabric is from the Valori Wells line DelHi. We have two bolts of heavy weight fabric in the shop. It's not quite upholstery weight, but heavier than normal cotton. It made an excellent skirt! The contrast is Kona Eggplant, though you can barely see it. The shirt is handmade from a Knip Mode pattern. I don't know if I've blogged the shirt yet... I'm not really very happy with it, but it's ok. The hat was a prop from one of the chili teams.

The other fun thing about the Chili Cookoff was it gave me a chance to use one of my super fun Christmas gifts - the Texas dinner bell! Yes, I have a "triangle" shaped like Texas. Thank you Uncle Bruce and Vicki!! Everyone got a kick out of it when the Garrison Commander rang the bell to start the cooking!

I have lovingly nicknamed my next creation my Frankenstein shirt, because I stitched three different patterns together to make it.

The sleeves are from a simplicity jacket pattern, that I will be revealing later on when I get the actual jacket finished. The yoke is from the Amy Butler Swing Tunic, and the main shirt part is from my favorite simplicity dress/shirt pattern Simplicity 2975. The teal part is from Joel Dewberry's Modern Meadow and I want to say the yellow part is from one of those Americana kid collections... but I've forgotten. It's striped.

And the best for last....

My second pair of Vogue 1051 pants. This pair is a cotton/linen blend and they are AWESOME!!!!! I love these pants!!! I love this fabric! I bought a pair of linen slacks a few years ago from an upscale clothing store, and the darn things split at the seams! This pair cost about HALF of what I paid for the other pair, fit better, and I made them myself! I did change the pockets on this pair to side pockets instead of welt pockets on the front. I drafted the pocket from another pair of slacks I own, so it doesn't come with that pocket option. But the front welt pockets are basically worthless, so I like this better. I can fit my phone in my pocket now. 

So tomorrow is St. Patty's day and I will have some green to post about. And hopefully I'll be more interesting for the rest of the month!

MMM 7

I made pants! Vogue 1051. I love pattern! It's supposed to be low waisted, but I have such a short torso that they are still tall on me. Oh, and apparently I'm short enough to cut the pant legs two inches too short (because of a fabric miscalculation) and still have them be long enough for me with a 1 1/2" hem! I don't know if I should feel happy about that or not.... Sorry about the squinty eyes but the sun was really bright today. The fabric is just a cotton canvas. The hardest part about this pattern was the welt pockets. After that they went together like a breeze.

MMM 5 & 6

This is an old photo. My hair didn't grow that long overnight! But since this is an older shirt and it was the weekend (read: didn't do my hair) I didn't bother to take a new picture. And today was a sewing day, so I was in and out of handmade things all day getting the fits right. This week I will have a few new "reveals" to share.

MMM 4

I started off the day wearing one thing but ended with the skirt above, due to a wardrobe malfunction in my ready to wear (rtw) pants! Mortifying. The best part was my awesome colleagues staring at me and giggling at my predicament and teasing me that I could lock myself in my office with the sewing machine and fix them myself, which I absolutely would have done if it weren't for the GIANT WINDOW in my office. In the end Katelyn suggested I simply change into one of the pieces of clothing I had on display out in the shop. Sometimes it really pays to work in a craft store and have your own clothes hanging as samples!!

Handmade roundup for the day: handmade shirt 1/2 day, handmade skirt 1/2 day, earrings by All Wound Up all day.

MMM 3

I managed three handmade items today: shirt (McCall's 6120), skirt (my own simple pattern) and earrings by Jenny (sorry they didn't get in the photo).

MMM 2

McCall's 6120 with a border print knit. This looked better in my head than in reality. I imagined it with a smaller border that just went around the bottom of the sleeve and hem. The border was way bigger once I cut out the pieces, so now I'm not too sure about it. Earrings from All Wound Up. Adrienne, do you have an Etsy shop?

MMM 1

Well, Me Made March starts today and sadly I will not be sharing any photos with you. We were finishing up all the inventory paperwork today, and putting the store back in order. So, manual labor + hand-made pretty things = disaster. Therefore my handmade items for today are pjs, which we have already established I will NOT have my photo taken in. But you did see my feet a few days ago.