Rolling right along, and still wearing me-made clothes. Love it! This outfit even includes a me-made necklace, oen of my favorite pieces I’ve made so far. But the top is the garment of the day.

This is based on the Portrait Blouse from Gertie’s awesome New Book for Better Sewing. This top almost didn’t make it. It was stitched together last winter, but it just wasn’t right, and I’ve been futzing with it ever since. I ended up taking the tucks out of the back because it was way too tight, and I didn’t include the side zip, because the fabric doesn’t really need it. The hem of this top is really high, and until recently, I didn’t have any pants with a high enough waist to work with it. I tried a few different methods of extending the length, but nothing that quite worked.

However, my new jeans have a nice, high waist, and they are perfect with this style of top. I ended up just finishing the hem with narrow single-fold bias tape, but it’s still not perfect. There are a few little places where the fabric slipped out of the tape and missed being sewn in. That drives me CRAZY. I will probably end up taking the bias tape off and re-doing this with a wider tape, but for today, it’s just fine.

I am reaching the bottom of my me-made closet, so there will be a fair number of repeats in the coming weeks. Hopefully I can think of different ways to wear my separates so that I’m not just wearing the same outfit over and over again. Which I have a tendency to do, because it’s easy. I’m also feeling pretty inspired to create some new stuff FAST so that I have more to wear this month.

My loose-weave sweater is kinda dead in the water right now (wah wah), but I’m going to start working tonight on a Colette Sencha bouse, which will hopefully be finished in time for the weekend. We shall see.

Are you me-made-ing it this month?