What I made in 2025

 So... I made four skirts all to the same design - two lengths of fabric cut straight and seamed, with the top folded over and elastic threaded through, and of course pockets.  Two are gingham, one is Liberty Tana Lawn and one is quilting cotton - all fabrics from stash.

I also made three dresses - all Tessuti Felicias in linen in chartreuse, orange and a check one which is much more blue than it appears in the photo.  The orange linen I bought in Paris, the chartreuse linen I bought on Etsy a while ago and the check is Faro linen from Merchant & Mills.

I finished one cardigan which I'd started knitting in December 2023 from a pattern I'd bought in April 2018.  I bought it because I loved the design on the sleeves, but they turned out to be a real faff to knit in the round on 9" circs, and nigh impossible to unpick any mistakes and correct them easily, so I gave up and just knitted stocking stitch sleeves instead.  Yarn is 100% lace wool from Wollmeise.

The photo is lying, the sleeves are the same length as each other 😉. 

I don't think I'll be knitting any more round necked cardigans, I think v-necks are more useful.

In the works, a cardigan based on this pattern which I made a few years ago, with the wool from this jumper which I unravelled, steamed and reskeined because I just didn't wear it.  However, this version is in stocking stitch only - theoretically for quickness but it's actually taking me ages to knit because I haven't been prioritising it.

Me-made May 2025 (and 2021)

Another long gap with no blogging...

I decided to sign up for this again having not done so since 2021 - along with life and the world in general the contents of my wardrobe have changed quite a bit since then so I thought it would be interesting to see if what I would choose to wear had changed.

My pledge was to finish a skirt, make two more and one dress, plus get an ME2016 cut out, if not sewn up.  I also had a cardigan which I'd started knitting in December 2023 and wanted to get finished.

I took outfit photos on the days when I wore something me-made. 

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I actually ended up making four skirts and three dresses and did finish the cardigan (I've written about them here).  However I didn't cut out the ME2016 (still haven't, hoping to get that made this year).  By the end of it I thought I would make some more fit and flare dresses although that hasn't happened (yet).  In fact I haven't sewn anything since.

And looking at the above photos there isn't really much change in the style of what I wore in 2025 from what I wore in 2021 - which I can see I didn't write about here at the time, but did record on instagram, so here is a quick summary.  I pledged to make three dresses (only made two, but did cut out the third and finished it in June) and to wear something me-made on every working day - only 13 days due to bank holidays and taking annual leave.  Some dresses which I wore in 2021 I wore again in 2025, some I've since passed on.  And May 2021 was clearly colder than May 2025 because there are a few handknits here (and a couple of rtw dresses - the first two in the batch of four photos).

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Details here, here, here & here

Details here, here, here, here & here