Me Made May Maybe

 In spite of good intentions, I have once again failed to keep up with any sort of blogging.  I don't know why,  at least not in general.  This past year was more than a bit crap all round and it was hard to keep motivated for anything (and, have to say, so far this year is not great either).  So that's an explaination for the past year, other years? Eh, probably an number of underlying reasons, but I expect the best one is that I prefer to reading over writting.

 I did feel more than a bit envious in November and December when everyone was doing year end reviews of their makes.   I was actually fairly productive in 2020, but so much of what I had done was completely undocumented.  I promised myself to do better about that, with either blog posts or at least a quick Instagram pic. (oh yes, I did set up an Instagram account~mostly so I could see all the Me Made May posts!) but here we are in May and I have no posts and only 5 Instagram pics.  Three of which are not related to anything me made (unless you count the fact that those three were all taken in/from the studio).

 Going forward, I'm going low-key with my participation in Me Made May.   I haven't made a formal pledge but, if I actually wear anything other than ratty t-shirts, elderly yoga pants and rapidly disintigrating RTW acrylic cardigans, I will be sure to document the occasion!

 My current makes are totally and completely boring and not easy to photograph.   But in the spirit of what I hope to achieve going forward, here's some less than stellar photos.

  This is a photo of all three projects I'm working on.  Two tops and a petticoat.   Muslins of course.  Mind the petticoat started as a muslin for a skirt and morphed into what I hope is an actual useable petticoat to use under big skirts.  Because I like a big skirt 😁   The muslin on top is my, 3rd(?) go at making the '40s Style Blouse from Gertie Sews Vintage Casual.  I think this one works and I plan to cut out a wearable muslin soonish.

  This one is my second try at the New Look 6598.  I was thinking I'd have to do a full bust adjustment* (and probably one for a "prominent tummy" too),  but found that the wearing ease (something like 5 inches) and playing with the dart and seam allowance size, gave me the room I need.  I will figure out the whole full bust adjustment thing for myself soon, I just didn't want to do it first on a top where the only front bodice darts were from the hem.  None of my (many) drafting/alteration books addressed this situation.  I do think I should do one more muslin of this one to see if my last few tweeks actually work before I cut into my fashion fabric  (which is now probably considered vintage 😆 ).

All that said,  I've been working with nothing but white and off white for months now, I started the experiment that became the petticoat back in January and worked on that for about 6 weeks straight.  (BTW, if I ever again decide to make something like 740 linear inches of ruffles in fabric that frays if you look at it sideways, someone please take my sewing tools away!)  Not the best thing to be doing when the usual view out the studio window was something like this.

Even though my view has more colour now,

I'm still feeling the need to work on something with a bit more interest.

I'm going to use one of these to make that big skirt experiment that started that whole thing with the petticoat!

* If anyone had told teenage/early 20's me that I would one day need to make adjustments for a "full bust" I'd have laughed them out of the room!

Liza