meganmarshall.bsky.social
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#memademay Day 29 - prettier on the inside. I am still so pleased with the facing/lining on my princess jacket. Its so clean and neat - although here it does need an iron 🤣

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May 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
#memademay Day 28 - rainbow or most colourful outfit.
Most of my me-mades are colourful, and I own quite a few different coloured cardigans to pair them with.
I couldn't decide which colour went with this dress best and photographed several 🙂

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May 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
#memademay 25 - comfiest outfit. This stretch sateen dress is so comfy and has been worn so many times it's starting to fade now.
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May 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
#memademay Day 26 - Summer dress. Most of my dresses count as summer dresses because I make them sleeveless so they're wearable all year round (with layers in the winter). And a few short sleeved ones like this border print princess seam dress.
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May 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
#memademay day 23 - matchy matchy and possibly monochrome too. I make and wear a lot of blue and navy.
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May 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
#memademay day 22 - pets of Charm.
Here are my two sewing distractions, Rusty and Milo. ❤️ Both are Australian Kelpies 🙂
Bonus pics of a dog coat and a bow tie I've made for Rusty. Milo is too new to us to have tested his tolerance for accessories 🙂
May 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
#memademay Day 21 - print matching
A second appearance of this check B6412. I normally don't worry about pattern matching, but tried hard to match the checks for this dress.

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May 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#memademay Day 20 with @charmpatterns.bsky.social, knit fabric. I've made several of these Sophia tops in cotton spandex knit. I do have plans for the full dress some time in the future.
#charmpatterns #vintagesewing #sewsky #retrosewing #midcentury #imakemyownclothes #sophiadress
May 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
#memademay day 18 - little black dress. I didn't have anything Gertie for lingerie/pyjamas yesterday. Or little black dress really. But here's a floral print B6412 on charcoal/black base.

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May 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
#memademay Day 17 - favourite pattern. I think it's Maria and it's predecessor the Princess seam bodice. I've made a ton of these. I used the school uniform skirt on this one.

#charmpatterns #sewsky #vintagesewing #retrosewing #mariadress
May 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#memademay Day 16 - Hollywood inspired.

This won't be most people's 'Hollywood' but I think of this as my Barbie dress because its SO pink, and I bought the fabric and made it soon after the Barbie film came out.

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May 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
#memademay Day 15 with @charmpatterns.bsky.social - pleats, tucks or gathers.
I love the pleated skirt from B6556/S9294 especially for border prints 🙂
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May 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#memademay25 Day 14 - head to toe me made.

I'm getting to the point where I'm going to repeat outfits/garments!

But here is my favourite Gertie make (lamour/B6412) worn with a cardigan I knit from a 1950s vintage knitting pattern.

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May 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
#memademay Day 13 - accessories are the star.
I have a load of different coloured Review (Australia) cardigans and belts to accessorise with. Sometimes I add earrings, hair flowers and cute shoes too, like with this novelty print Maria 🙂
#charmpatterns #vintagesewing #sewsky #Mariadress #1950s
May 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
#memademay Day 11 - Refashion. This Xmas fabric skirt used to be a surplice dress (from Gertie's Ultimate Dress Book). I've managed to rescue a few dresses in to skirts where I didn't get the bodice fit quite right.

There are Echidnas in the fabric print 😁

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May 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
#memademay with @charmpatterns.bsky.social Day 12: floral print. Rita dress with 3/4 circle skirt in Gertie/Spotlight collab stretch poplin from a few years ago.
But I could have posted a load of my other makes - floral is my favourite print 🙂
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May 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
#memademay25 with @charmpatterns.bsky.social Days 8 & 9. I've combined 'layers' with 'latest project'. This is the Camille bodice from Charm patterns with a 3/4 circle skirt with the bolero from S9290. Sorry, no photos of me actually wearing them!
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May 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
#memademay25 Day 7 - On Wednesdays, we wear pink.

I made this pink floral Madeline bodice + 3/4 circle skirt last year

The light was poor at home this morning, so I've included a picture from last year, where I accessorised with a pink cardigan.
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May 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
#memademay25 with @charmpatterns.bsky.social Day 6 - plaid. This is B6412. It sadly doesn't fit so well at the moment, and is on my list of projects to re-size or makeover.
#charmpatterns #b6412 #vintagesewing #sewsky #imakemyownclothes
May 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
#memademay25 with @charmpatterns.bsky.social Day 5 - My favourite decade. Despite 1950s being my most wearable decade, my favourite is 1940s. I don't wear this Society dress enough!

It does bug me a bit that the print is a bit large for 1940s 🙂

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May 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
#memademay25 with @charmpatterns.bsky.social Day 4 - My favourite make. It's a tough one, but I went with this Lamour/B6412 mashup in stretch sateen. It turned out almost perfectly 🥰
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May 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
#memademay25 Day 3 with @gertie . My most challenging make is this Madeline dress, because my original colour choice for the gores looked awful. Then I decided to line the bodice instead of using a facing. Turned out well in the end though 🙂

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May 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
#memademay Day 2 with @charmpatterns.bsky.social is pockets. I add pockets to everything I can. I use a pocket puece I copied from a RTW dress with super deep pockets, and it's now my standard pocket for dresses and skirts, including this Maria dress.

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May 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
#memademay with @charmpatterns.bsky.social Day 1. My most made pattern is Rita and I've made it as knit and woven tops, but also as dresses.
May 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's been slow progress on this 1940s sirdar cardigan! Slowly getting there though.

#vintageknitting #knitsky #1940s #vintageknitter #vintageknittingpattern
April 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM