Ok, so it took me awhile to come up with 2018’s Me Made May pledge, but I think I got it. With 2 days to go.
This #MMMay18, I, Becky, pledge to:
1. Wear ZERO RTW tops, bottoms, dresses.* I have some recently acquired Colette sample garments I’m dying to wear, so not really me-made, but we-made? 😀 Close enough. Is this really a challenge for me? No…but wait, there’s more….
2. Document, document, document. I’m terrible about this. I’ve never made a selfie-station and I’d like to have a better catalog to look back one. So, this is a challenge, but not really anything to do with the heart of MMMay, so….
3. My REAL challenge: I promise to find at least one thing a week around the house to turn into/advocate as me-made versus consuming more, mawr, MOOORE. I have a couple things in mind I’m testing, but it will be a challenge to find areas of waste AND commit to finding solutions that are sewing me-made-replacements.
*I know I need to make more foundation & workout garments. Those are glaring holes in the me-made area I’m aware of and will also work on filling, but are not a need at this time. As my RTW in that area comes to their life-cycle end, I’ll deal with it then. Part of me-made-may for me, however, it’s making things for the sake of making it. If I have a RTW item, I will wear it to death and then some. Just ask my husband about the cashmere sweater.
BRING ON #MMMay18 !
I love this! Especially the part of not using MMMay just to sew more things! I am trying to fill some serious wardrobe gaps with staples I will wear, not get distracted by impractical dresses that I won’t. It’s very difficult – I nearly bought a dress pattern yesterday 🙂
Good luck on zero rtw tops, bottoms and dresses – am very impressed!