Me-Made-May 2014: What I wore May 10-16

And here we are at the end of the second week of Me-Made-Me 2014, halfway through. As per my pledge, I am wearing at least one garment that I’ve made, refashioned or embellished each day of this month. You can see the first week here. I continue to have trouble because of a glaring lack of me-made clothing for in-between weather, as we’ve been having. Also we never know what the weather will be like from day to day (or hour to hour, really). Yesterday, for example, was incredibly sunny and warm in the morning and then rainy, windy and cool with black clouds covering the sky. It makes for a difficult time when getting dressed in the morning!

May 10, 2014

• Layered reverse appliqué t-shirts with a twist on the Alabama Chanin style

That day I also met the wonderful ladies behind the Riciclattoli books, Valentina Cavalli and Pucci Zagari at a presentation of the book Riciclattoli Tutto l’Anno* in Naples. (The book is full of adorable toys to make with kids using upcycled materials.) Check out Valentina’s shirt. It’s basically a white t-shirt with fabric stitched on like a fake vest. Awesome! I think I’m going to have to be copying the idea one of these days…

May 11, 2014

• Green geometric leggings
• Asymmetrical hands-free bag (still yet to be blogged about edit: here it is!)

May 12, 2014

Just hangin’ with Padre Pio.

• Vine-embellished jeans
• Simple foulard (so simple that I haven’t bothered blogging about it)

May 13, 2014

• Felix the Cat freezer stenciled t-shirt
• Zipper earrings

May 14, 2014

• White t-shirt ruffled petticoat
• Braided chain necklace (yet to be blogged about)

May 15, 2014

• Green geometric leggings (I’d totally forgotten that I’d just worn them a few days earlier, or else I would’ve worn something else)
• Fabric embellished belt
• Upcycled record necklace and earrings (I didn’t actually make those, but I did write about them, hence the link)

May 16, 2014

Today’s Friday theme is “Too Pretty to Wear Pants.” I took this as meaning “so pretty that you should wear a skirt or dress” and, taking it one step further, my skirt was made from an old pair of pants, but afterwards it occurred to me that the theme was suggested by a gal from England, where the word “pants” refers to underwear. I don’t think I’m quite that pretty and I confirm that I am indeed wearing underwear today. (But speaking of which, I totally forgot to mention that most of the days last week I was also wearing me-made cloth pads.)

• Box pleated skirt with belt from old jeans and a crib sheet

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