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Hey there,

I entered this awesome competition this week, from the lovely ladies over at The Monthly Stitch. They kicked off Indie Pattern Month with Dresses. Just like it sounds, this one was all about making a dress using an indie pattern. I wanted to use an indie designer, I've never used before so decided on Named Clothing's Kielo Wrap Dress, as I've seen some fab makes, by Lizzie here.

I had to take abit of width off the sides as my light fabric was only 45″, I also took 5″ off the length and adjusted the split at the back to sit higher against by short legs!

This is a great dress, easy to make and comfortable to wear. When I make it again, I’m thinking a coral or red colour with more width to emphasise the wrap effect at the waist.

The other entries are amazing and gorgeous, so if you like what i've done, please vote for me by clicking on the button below and look for my entry called Indie Pattern Week – Kielo Wrap Dress.

Have a great week folks OMH x

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Me Made May 2014 - Final Week

So I made it to the end of Me Made May 2014, I've worn four handmade garments per week over the last four weeks, any incredible blogged about it too (not counting this last post being alittle late).

So what did I wear my final week of MMM14....

The Dets

To follow OMH

MMM14 - Week Three

MMMay 14 - Week Three - straight into the pics for this week, thought I'd mix up abit and move the posing into the hallway....you're welcome!

The Dets:

Week Three - Day One - Blue swirly Japanese Washi Dress - blogged about here  

Week Three - Day Two - Shape sorter black and white Anna dress - blogged about here 

Week Three - Day Three - Pink and black Roxanne, I love this pattern, I've made a spotty version here, I just love the floaty pleated back on this pattern, without a doubt this will not the last time you see this !

Week Three - Day Four - Black and grey Burda #101, this was inspired by a dress I'd seen on SewMeow. This pattern comes with instructions and pattern pieces for the bodice only, its a scooped neck line with cap sleeves, which you attach a gathered skirt too, it's classed as intermediate ability on Burda, but I didn't find it that hard to execute. This was made with some left over fabric I had from a skirt I'd made, it's shorter then i'd usually wear, so It's more of a tunic!

We've been busy as we're planning a house move, but I did get a few episodes of Season 2 House of Cards in this week, Frank you bad boy...tap tap!

OMH x

MMM14 - Week Two

MMMay 14 - Week Two (and abit), turns our I'm really bad at remembering to take photos of my daily outfits. I've actually worn a me-made outfit every day, but only got 4 shots! You also get to see me in all my 'end of day, no make up, kind of knackered' glory!

News for the week, I've signed up to become a contributor to Indie Pattern Month 2014, its an indie pattern challenge run by The Monthly Stitch crew. I've signed up for general sewing motivation and get to know some new patterns - time to step away from the Anna.

Moving on....what did I wear this week:

The Dets:

Week Two - Day One - Anna Dress, Black and White fabric with a fan design. This pattern (in case you haven't heard of it) is by By Hand London - this was the first Anna Dress I made and loved the end result. There was a few firsts on this make, first time tracing a pattern and the first time I'd heard of and attempted a french seam. See my other Anna's here and here.

Week Two - Day Two - Japanese Linen Dress - New Look 6022, this is one for the very first dresses I made in a local sewing class, at Made on Marion, in Wellington NZ. This was one of the recommended pattern's to try, I'm so glad I picked it! It's super comfortable and the the thick linen fabric means it doesn't crumple. This dress was incredibly easy to make, I did widening the pattern alittle on the hips (with help from my teacher of course!). The fabric was picked up in Tokyo last year, I keep meaning to blog about this trip...well at least the Fabric Shopping bit...watch this space! Want to see what else made it back with me from Japan, see here!

Week Two - Day Three - Elastic Waist Band Skirt, this was a free PDF pattern download from Megan Nielsen's website. Made from stretch jersey fabric with a stormy tree design. I've also made a dress from the same fabric. Pattern additions was a tie belt.

Week Two - Day Four - Staple Dress, by Anna Rhodes. I picked up some black and brown stripy fabric from Fabric-a-brac, inspired by a Country Road dress, I'd thought I'd try contrasting stripes and colours. Vertical black stripe on the front and horizontal brown stripes on the back....what do you think...too much!

I've done no sewing this week as I've been binge-watching Vikings...."No King Horik, I only betrayed you. I was always true to the Gods and Ragnar" (awesome!)

Enjoy the rest of your week OMH x

MMM14 - Week One

MMMay 14 got off to a slow start, but I've kept my pledge of 4 outfits per week. Here are some of the highlights. I've yet blog about some of these, but pics are just as good!

The Dets:

Week One - Day One - Anna dress, this yellow and black fabric started out life as a coffee date dress, I love the coffee date dress, but it just looked too frumpy for my figure. So this Anna dress is short, as I had to make it out of pre-cut fabric pieces (I hate wasting fabric),

Week One - Day Two - Flora/Anna frankenpattern. The bodice is an Anna and the skirt is a dipped hem Flora skirt. Made of Jersey this is the really comfortable dress....love, love, love!

Week One - Day Three - Can you guess it's a ....drum roll....Anna Dress, similar to Day One, this very stiff stretchy fabric started life as a circle skirt. The stifness of the fabric made it stick out directly from the hips, so I refashioned and re-cut the fabric in to an Anna tunic. I wear this was a cumber band type fabric belt.

Week One - Day Four - And now for something completely different! This spotty number is a Roxanne, I love this pattern, I've yet to attempt the amazing triple pleated collar which drew me to buy this pattern, but no fear, I have one planned for a future make.

Weekly Round up: I already wear many of my handmade makes, however I'm noticing gaps in some much needed wardrobe staples. Pants or trousers for one, I've been following the Collette series on Wardrobe Architect for some greatly appreciated inspiration.

Release the Kracken!

I'm all about jersey at the mo. I made this dress using the The Staple Dress pattern. I had much gratification with this one, as I finished it in a day, that's from cutting to hemming (there are few patterns I can say that about...well for my skills anyway!).

I picked up this fabric from Fabric-a-brac. The idea, is that if your stash of fabric is taking over your house, why not sell it to other fabric hoarders to enable their problem! I love it and try and make it to each sale that's in town, usually once or twice a year. 

This owl fabric kind of reminds me of Bubo in Clash of the Titans (81' movie of course!).

The Dets:

Pattern: The Staple Dress by April Rhodes

Size: Various - I traced size small around neckline, as it gaps on me, XL for the chest and graduated to XXL on the hips.

Fabric: Jersey

What did you change: omitted the shirring and opted for a belt instead from Mod Cloth

Would you make it again: Yep, the fitting of this dress gets better each time I make and tweak it!

What do you love about this pattern: Comfortable and I love the drop hem variation.

Inspiration for this make: Abbey from Sewcharleston, all her Staple Dresses are equally lovely.