Me-Made-March '11, In Flight

I am flying from Los Angeles to Delaware to coach a law-student team in a moot court competition, but I am now hooked on this whole Me-Made-March '11 thing, so I'm posting this from Row 19 of USAir Flight 796! I am so 21st Century I can hardly stand myself!



Here's yesterday:



See what I did there? For the record, today's scarf is a different piece of the thrifted skirt-of-a-thousand-purposes from yesterday's pieces.

Up, up and away!

I'm Quite Pleased With Myself Today

I was going to wear the same thing I wore yesterday--Me-made, but still ...
Yesterday and today are low-exposure days at work--no teaching--so I figured no one would notice. Except for the whole world via these damned pictures. So I grabbed this me-made vest and thrifted silk shirt at the last minute. It had never occurred to me to wear them together. The shirt is special--the tag in the back says "Bullocks Wilshire," a classic Hollywood department store which has been "repurposed" into the law school where I teach!

One reason I started sewing again was to drape myself with fabrics that I like to look at and to hell with what anyone else thinks. Today's get-up is very satisfying for me.



Close-up of shirt fabric:


Vest and shirt together:

Some Me-Made Catch-Up

I'm finding Me-Made-March somewhat more educational than I expected (or hoped). I have spent years avoiding mirrors and hiding from cameras. This daily photography exercise, forcing me to see what I look like, is both disturbing and a little reassuring. The photos reveal an ordinary-looking person, not the misshapen clown who lives in my head. But they also reveal that the clothes matter. The easy skirt I hoped to make a staple of my wardrobe is not a good look for me or, at least, there are certainly better looks. So it goes.

March 8


March 9


March 10


March 13

Shake a Leg?

Yay! A few weeks ago I won Welsh Pixie's 100th-post giveaway. Today, this auspicious package arrived in the mail:


I opened it to find:


Yes, that is a single leg on top:


Beneath that is a very pretty and useful bag (handmade, Toria? And the leg, too?)


And two very nice patterns:


I am a very happy camper! Thank you Toria!

Me and Me-Made-March '11

I've been keeping up with my pledge, but barely. I'm finding the style blogging as hard as the me-making, which I'm also finding hard. But it's also inspiring, in a way. I could get by with my 3 skirts (1 has not made an appearance yet!), top, vest, jammie top and bag and not really be any more redundant with my clothing than usual, but undertaking to post a picture every day is enough to goose me to create more. Today's entry, for example, was serged up in the last 5 minutes before I left for work, when I idly picked up the hem I had cut off a thrifted skirt intending to shorten it before deciding instead to make a shirt of the skirt (not yet done) and wrapped it around my neck a few times. It felt so nice, and it was already hemmed on one side . . .

March 7


March 6 (Vest)


(and Bag)


(I love this bag!)

March 5 (the jammies again)
March 4 (Shirt)


March 3 (Skirt)

Snoozing Through Day Two

Today's entry in Me-Made-March is a little lame--I made and will shortly don this pajama top (bottom will come later). Just made it!

Me-Made-March Day 1 and a Blast from the Past

OK, it's March 1 already. I can make it through the end of the week for sure, I think. Today I wore my gold moleskin skirt, which has been seeing a lot of wear since I made it in January.

It hadn't occurred to me that the hardest part of Me-Made-March '11 would be taking the pictures, but it might be so. It took me half an hour to learn to use the timer function on my camera!

As for the blast from the past, I was a big Gerry and the Pacemakers fan in my early teen years, and I still am. But how did a bunch of painfully young Liverpuddlians come up with such a hysterical Golden-Ager name for themselves? The Pacemaker hadn't even been invented yet when Gerry(atric) and his pals adopted the name! But they must have known they'd appeal to us old-timers someday--why else would Gerry emulate a bad toupe with his hairdo?

I like the following version of "I Like It" in part because I think he is really singing, not lipsinching to their hit recording.