Now that Me Made May is done and gone, I can start mixing up what I wear with my RTW articles. During MMM I tried to wear a top and bottom that I had made. Turns out this is getting easier, as I have been making my clothes for several years now. The wardrobe capsule that I made earlier in the spring has definitely helped in getting a matching wardrobe.
So here is a bit of a dissection on my wardrobe…or at least the brown/tan/cream section.
Favorite wear was probably this modified Ravenna with a RTW scarf with skulls and flowers on it (shoes are Franco Sarto). I promise that I will do a hack blog post on this top turned dress. Now that I have worn it, there is a modification that needs to be made with it. The neckline is too high, so when you sit down it can choke you out a bit. That needs to get lowered. This dress was also a hot mess with the fabric, since it was so shifty. I needed to wear something over the top to camouflage the non-matching bust darts. It was really horrid to work with, though it has a nice hand.
Another cream and black, which is a combination I like to wear. These are my palazzo, or lose fitting pants, basically. The top is one that I made a year or so ago, and it started out as a dress. The dress was a hot mess, so I just hacked it off the bottom and hemmed. Sometimes you have to do that to salvage a me made that didn’t work the first time.
Now here are some browns. The first photo is of a skirt that I made a few years ago, and the brown knit and pleather top from my capsule. I also have plans to make a tutorial on drafting and making this top. I need to make some more, but I need to modify the pattern a bit. It has a little gaping in the front, so a little too much material on the top middle. Easy enough to take out.
Hey, here is the top again! A nice neutral gets a lot of wear. The skirt is also from the capsule. (Sweater: LOFT, Boots: American Eagle, Jewelry: vendor at Wizard World)
Another brown outfit. The top is a bias cut top from my wardrobe capsule and a bottom weight with lycra skirt I made a few years ago (errr…2008) (shoes: Bandolino, necklace: Stella and Dot). It was one of the first skirts I made when I started sewing for myself again.
This one has a lace top I made in 2012, the cardigan from my capsule (again, I want to make a blog post on how to draft and make one) and the palazzo pants in a heavy brown poly knit.
A little more colorful, but still in the brown/tan category. This is a shirt I made as a part of my capsule and hacked from the Sneha by Wardrobe by Me. The skirt is my basic maxi skirt pattern in a knit made in 2012. I found this knit to be a bit too thin and didn’t have a nice recovery. The fabric is pretty, but it will be going in a giveaway pile. I shouldn’t be wearing see-through skirts at my age. 😉 (Cardigan: CAbi, jewelry: Silpada, flats: Life Stride)
And one last brown that I have a decent photo of (I resorted to using my DSLR, since my phone camera sucks). This is a basic pull on skirt out of bottom weight with lycra and my wrap top draft that I made this winter. (boots and sweater from Zulily).
I am hoping to get some time to sew some summer clothes for me and my girl. We both are in great need. I decided to participate in a swimsuit pattern test, and I think it is time for me to step back from anything with a timeline. I just don’t have enough hours to string together right now to guarantee anything. These kids are keeping us busy this summer with travel baseball and softball. It seems I have to go to every one of their games or they get a little testy with me. Tweens! 😉
