Emery no 2, and Me-Made-May

Yes, another bird print dress and my second Emery, although this time with sleeves.  I saw a dress made up in this fabric towards the end of last year, although for the life of me I can't remember whose blog it was, and knew that I had to seek out the fabric and make a dress from it for myself.

I love yellow and grey in combination with each other and, as I think is kinda obvious by now, I also have a thing about bird prints.  So, I found the fabric at Hawthorne Threads, and while I was there another bird print fabric somehow found its way into my shopping basket as well.  I think that is going to end up as a shirt dress, quite soon I hope.

Not much to say about this dress that hasn't already been said by other bloggers - it's a great fit, this fabric has a bit of stretch in it - and is easy to sew.  And I love it :-)

Grey and yellow birds dress

 I've decided to sign up for Me-Made-May this year and this is my pledge - I Helena of libraknitsandsews.blogspot.com, sign up as a participant of Me-Made-May '14.  I will wear a me-made dress to work every day during May and will aim to finish a cardigan I started knitting last month.  I would also like to make a dress with buttons, or more accurately, buttonholes!

Wearing a me-made dress to work every day during May won't be difficult because I'm not actually working that many days this month due to the bank holidays and me deciding to take extra days off next to them.  I think I've already made enough dresses to wear something different every day.  But I do need some impetus to finish the cardigan I'm knitting - if I don't get it done this month I can see it languishing unfinished until the autumn.  I've knitted the body up to the armholes, so about a third of the way there.  I need to finish the body, add the button / buttonhole bands, finish off the neck and then do the sleeves.  If I lose the will to live over any part of this it will be the sleeves - knitting sleeves is just plain boring as far as I'm concerned.  But I want it to have long sleeves, so I'll persevere.  And the yarn I'm knitting it with is lovely, and that definitely helps.  If anyone reading this is on Ravelry, it's this one. 

Now I think I need to go and decide which pattern-with-buttonholes I'm going to make up, and start cutting out fabric.