I participated in Me Made May again this year. My making has slowed down considerably in the last 6 months, so my goal was the same as last year: wear 1 handmade garment or accessory every day. It’s interesting to see how many garments were the same as last year, but also how many were different.
Garments:
Of course I wore my grey Alabama Chanin dress. This dress has become one of my go-tos: I feel good in it and I always get compliments. I also get a lot of wear out of my orange tunic-dress. It’s super comfortable and easy to wear for a lazy day at home.
I have 4 handmade sleeveless tops now: 2 self-drafted, and 2 Wiksten Tanks.
I don’t wear vests a lot, but when I do, they need huge awesome collars. Some handmade lace for a back cutout doesn’t hurt, either.
It’s debatable whether socks are garments or accessories, but I figure since they enclose a part of your body and have to fit, they should be included as garments. I wore my Slytherin socks and my Watermelon socks throughout the month.
Having handmade undergarments has been a real boon for those days when everything else was dirty or didn’t seem to go well together.
Accessories:
My office is really cold. As in, ‘wear socks and shoes (not sandals) and a shawl and a sweater and fingerless gloves’ cold. So I wore shawls a fair amount this month. My Granny shawl drapes perfectly and stays on effortlessly, and I also wore my wedding shawl and my most recent pattern release, the Balai Shawl (free pattern here).
Some days I didn’t feel like going all out, so I accessorized with my Kumihimo necklace or a ribbon rose hair clip. Simple, but effective.
New:
I’ve been working on several projects this month, but most of them aren’t finished yet (oh the life of a crafter). I did manage to finally finish my wool crepe vest, and I love how it turned out! It’s big and comfortable and the fabric is oh so lovely.
Dramatic Lyric 
I like how you tackle Me Made May! I usually do wear at least one thing I have made, but May is the leanest month for that, usually! I am not wearing sweaters and wool socks, don’t need to wrap up in a shawl, usually, and haven’t gotten out the summer clothes yet, which include more handmade skirts than the winter wardrobe does. So somedays I can only claim to have made my earrings! But as I said, the way you do it, I can handle, and likely manage to make it through the month with something on that I made. Even if I just CARRY a shawl, lol!
I hear you on being between seasons. I feel like Me Made May should be about highlighting your handmade clothes rather than a set of rigid rules. I don’t generally like rules…
Exactly! Highlighting, wearing what you can. 🙂
Today is so cold I considered wool sweater and socks again. But didn’t go there, and so don’t have a thing on that I made!
I won’t lie, as soon as June 1 hit I intentionally stopped thinking about it and started wearing the commercially made clothes I neglected last month. What can I say, they’re my clothes and I love them.
Lol slow fashion doesn’t rule out commercially made clothes, thank heavens! Just make them last and reuse the fabric when the clothes wear out and you can have a clean conscience.
I love the way you approached MeMadeMay. I might use this as my inspiration and try myself next year.
That’s wonderful!! I find it’s most useful to have a variety of handmade items so you don’t feel like you are wearing the same thing every day. I hope you try it. It’s fun!
It’s amazing you have wide range of talent! Loved the pick necklace as well! 😊💕
Thank you!!!