Saying "yes!" in a moment of enthusiasm can often be regrettable. So yes, I have been a bit worried about my Me-Made-May commitment. But, I'm still up for the challenge.
My personal rule is that I will try to wear one major or two minor self-made garments a day. (I am counting refashioned clothes as self-made if I had to alter more than a seam line, a hem or an embellishment to make it wearable.)
Like some other Me-Mad-May-ers, I'm finding that my self-made wardrobe is a bit unbalanced. I'm good to go out for the night in a dressy skirt, to cook dinner in a snazzy apron, or to lounge around in nothing more than fancy wool socks and strange underwear, but I am lacking in basics. Thus, I spent some time this weekend sewing my wardrobe staple: knit shirts. Every time I got really frustrated with skipped stitches and stretched hems, I just made another pair of underwear. I now have enough homemade undies to almost get me through two weeks! But I promise to combine them with some visible clothes.
Here is the latest panty crop--all but one up-cycled from just 3 T-shirts.
I am hoping that the ridiculous Chinese character pair is not somehow offensive in it's use as underwear, but it was a T-shirt so how much worse is underwear? Anybody know what it means? Jessica, I'm counting on you here. I'm hoping it's not something like: "Pig," and guessing it is something like "Peace" or "Love."
I had to piece the sides on these because I refashioned the original Chinatown souvenir shirt into a boy's shirt that looked like this:
So the mysterious symbol lives on as a double refashion. Maybe it means "long life?"
I'm finding that sewing underwear is like knitting dishclothes, it can prevent you from ever completing another real project. Now I'm even thinking about bloomers.
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