Me-Made-May week five or Green Week

Strange how you suddenly fall in love with a colour all over again (or is this just me?). Beautiful bright emerald green swooped me of my feet this week (quite lietrally too because it turns out that I have torn some soft tissue in my knee then broke my little toe - on the same leg!).
So my green love-in started with my Gap cardigan and went from there...

The final week of Me-Made-May saw my first repeat items in the form of the Colette Sorbetto and Grainline Scout Woven tee. It would be a great idea to make some more of these and branch out into more fluid / drapier fabrics.

Overall I have really enjoyed taking part in Me-Made-May for the first time and will definitely take part next year. My most worn items were as I mentioned basic tops and skirts (I have more of these to choose from). Additions to my wardrobe in May were:

• Total Pollocks tee
• Colette Ginger chevron skirt
• Red polka dot Grainline Scout Woven tee (not yet blogged)
• Black and white plaid shift dress Simplicity 9620 (not yet blogged)
• Colourful ikat shift dress Simplicity 9620 (not yet blogged)
• Green vintage dress repair (not yet blogged)

I still have a red jumbo polka dot Colette Sorbetto cut out ready to sew which I never got around to completing and as you know I am part-way through making a green and blue Tulip skirt at Sew Over It.

Here is what my Me-Made-May looked like:

The full list of my me-mades / me-modified / me-mended:

Tops

• Grainline Scout Woven tee x 2 (black polka dot and red polka dot)
• Colette Sorbetto x 3 (B&W stripe, white pin-tuck, patterned)
• By Hand London Polly top x 1 (ikat and Designer's Guild)
• Jackson Pollock inspired tee x 1 (Total Pollocks tee)
• Tilly and the Buttons Mathilde blouse x 1 (blue and white)

Skirts

• Colette Ginger x 2 (cerise pink, chevron)
• Clothkits Trellick Tower x 1 (pink Trellick Tower)
• Self-draft Hirst skirt x 1 (multi-coloured polka dot)
• Self-drafted 'Gap' skirt x 1 (black skirt)
• Simplicity 2154 x 1 (red pencil skirt)
• Self-drafted bustle skirt x 1 (navy blue skirt)

Dresses

• Black and white plaid shift dress Simplicity 9620
• Ikat shift dress Simplicity 9620
• Green vintage dress repair
• 60's vintage dress repair (blue vintage dress)

Jewellery

• Me-made Tatty Devine bunting necklace

As you can see trousers and dresses are not really featured as heavily as skirts and tops which means I have a little bit of sewing to do in the next couple of months to address this inbalance! Yesterday when I visited Ray Stitch in Islington I 'invested' in a few patterns (BHL Flora dress, Deer and Doe Belladone, Colette Montana and Colette Mabel) which will keep me out of mischief for a quite a bit.

I have also recently purchased the PDF versions of Grainline's Maritime Shorts and the Moss Mini which I need to stick together, so yeah, lot's of sewing projects in the pipeline!

How did you find Me-Made-May?

What sewing projects do you have on at the moment?