day 17&18

the sweaterdress

just a short post before i add a second post more in detail on the sweaterdress.

Yes, my knitsibs from Vienna and I went to Pfaffenhofen, close to Munich in Germany to go to the Wollmeise store there to buy yarn. it was wonderful!

Heather and i had our picture taken in front of the store to celebrate Me Made May there together!

here is the link to Heather's pic of us!

...more to be posted later!
have a nice and sunny sunday!

Kat

second week MMM13

short update on Me-Made-May 13

I have been sick most of the week, no going to work or donning clever self-made outfits. I have been lounging in various handknit items though - nothing better than handknit socks to make you feel better!

i did manage to catch a couple of breaths at the fresh air and have some outfits to share from before i got sick!

mystery day 1 from last week,

sporting a breezy cardigan, pattern by Hannah Fettig. a very comfy and cool cardigan, but be warned, this is knit with lace weight yarn on 4.5mm needles - it does take some time and patience to finish! i do love it totally!

mysteryday 2 from last week,

sporting no.2 drape pants from Drape, Drape by Hisako Sato. This is a very fascinating book, full of patterns utilising the drape of - mainly knit - fabrics and by folding and draping them to get interesting draping garments. i made the no.2 drape pants - still a rather simple garment - and totally love them! they are extremely comfy and still look classy enough to wear them to work!

after getting this book and realising it is mainly about knitfabrics i enrolled in the craftsyclass "sewing with knits" by Meg McElwee. This is a very nice way to get started with sewing knits, Meg McElwee gives you a lot of tips on what to pay attention to, what kind of supplies are important etc.

so that was my, not very successful, MMM13- week 2, now off to bed again and back to drinking masses of tea and hoping that this terrible cold finally passes!

cheers, kat

day 7 - the first week of MMM13

Day 7, aka Tuesday

allright, first week of Me-Made-May13 is over now.

First my solution for this day; i took out the lovely Wispy Cardigan, again a hand-knit, pattern by Hannah Fettig. And here is the link to my Ravelry project page, i used a rather thin merino from Wedermann and i think it took forever to finish knitting it up, it is a wonderful fabric and although its very thin it keeps quite warm.

Its always a bit of a challenge to me to style this cardigan with my outfit, but i think it works quite well with the shirt and pants - the classic use for it -of course- is styled to a summerdress.

To sum up my first week of Me-Made-May'13:

i managed to wear something selfmade 6 days out of 7, although at the moment my range is rather limited - i used my hand-knit items (although i do have selfmade sewn garments too) and mostly i love to wear my handknit shawls.

My personal challenge will be to broaden the spectrum of selfmade items and to incorporate them better with my transportational choices (aka riding the bike to work every day).

day 5 - lazy sunday

Lazy sunday for memademay13 - ending in a stroll through the city and two outfits(?!)

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MMM13 - day 3&4

MMM13 days 3&4 - kinda cheating by using my goto selfmade items...

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