Me made May Day 9-22

As I mentioned in my last post, the last few weeks have been a bit rough so I decided to be kind to myself and not worry about what's happening on the blog or about my Me Made May photos.  Therefore you're getting the photos that I remembered to take over the last few weeks.  I have been fully participating though and actually this is the first year I have not really struggled any morning to pick myself an outfit that is at least partially me made.  

Day 9: lace belcarra blouse and strawberry circle skirt (unblogged) 

Day 10: pleather circle skirt and blingy refashioned jumper.

Day 11: 70s tartan dress for my mummy's birthday dinner. I made a cake that almost matched my dress!

Day 12: floral pencil skirt and RTW top to see the Vogue exhibition! 

Day 13: Angelica top and ultimate trousers. I really need some more of these tops in my life-I got so many compliments on it and I wear it loads. I couldn't be bothered with a photo today. 

Day 14: jeans and a Dolores top. This was a terrible day so I again opted out of the photo taking.

Day 15: Pleather skirt and vintage top.  This outfit never fails to get me compliments and I love it, however again was not in the mood for photos.

My mend this week was a summer loose knit jumper which had developed a serious hole.

Before:

After:

And its ready to wear again

Day 16: Going with the 'any photo is better than none' attitude!  Wearing my Sallie jumpsuit to go and watch the Great British Sewing Bee at the meet up hosted by Cocowawa and Sewitwithlove.

Day 17: New Orla top (that I will blog about shortly) and jumper refashion

Day 18: Stripey lady skater

Day 19: I was full of the cold and was working from home and all I really wanted to do was stay in my pyjamas but as I did have to leave the house I wore jeans, a black Dolores top (unblogged) and my owl jumper.  No photo though.

Day 20: Strawberry circle skirt and owl jumper

Day 21: This is where my me made wardrobe failed me.  I was on a friends hen do and I needed a night time party dress and I have not made any of these.  Thinking about it most of my handmade dresses are fairly casual day time ones like my lady skater dresses.

Day 22: Birdie Renfrew top (unblogged)

This weeks mend was sewing a button back on my winter coat.  I wore it to a wedding at the beginning of April and it got caught on my bag and the only way to detangle it was to snip off the button.  I'd say less than 2 months to sew it back on is pretty good going. However it really was too banal a mend to photograph so no picture.

Good luck with the final stretch of Me-made-May everyone.

A blogiversary and a giveaway

Today is my two year blogiversary!  I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who comes by to read and to the whole online sewing community, I have so much fun being part of it and learn so much.  While I have gained loads of sewing knowledge I also find being part of this community spurs me to learn other things too.  In a not too crazy step, in the last 2 years I have learnt to knit. However, a much bigger step is that as a life long technophobe, I now have a blog, an etsy shop and as of this week I am also on instagram and twitter (although I'm still not sure how to work my twitter account so bear with me).

To say thanks to you all, I thought I'd host a little giveaway.  I have a number of items below which normally would be due to be sold in my etsy shop but I thought I would offer some of them up for a giveaway.  The plan is (assuming enough of you are interested) is to pick 2 names to win 2 prizes, I'm slightly hammering the '2' theme here but it's my blogiversary so I can do what I want.  To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is follow me on instagram (if you don't have an instagram account just let me know in the comment, I won't discriminate) you can find me @almostahippy.  Once you've done this just leave me a comment below telling me which two items from the list that you would pick.  I'll pick the winners on the 19th Spetember.

What's up for grabs?

1982 trouser pattern for knits.  Size 18.

1984 A-line skirt pattern.  Size 18.

1.5m of brown, polycotton broderie anglaise

1m vibrant orange rough silk

1975 dress pattern, size 10.

1974 tunic, dress and trouser pattern.  Size 18.

1950s dress pattern.  Size 18

1970s pattern.  Size 12.  I love the elegant French Riviera style of this one.

1970s dress pattern, size 14.

1m navy stretch lace

90cm x 1.5m wool tartan

1976 dress pattern, size 12

1971 dress pattern, size 18.  I love this dress and actually have another copy on my to-make pile at the moment.

Good luck everyone, and have a lovely weekend. After an unexpectedly gruelling cycle commute today, I'm off to the pub for a well earned drink.