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Me Made May Maternity Prep 2: Making Stuff

What I have found to be the biggest difference in making things before and now is one big one:  I've been tackling a lot more knits.
Sewing madness.
With a little help from my buddy, of course.


It's much easier for me to deal with a growing, changing body if the material has some stretch to it.  Plus, I have some great and versatile patterns from, who else, Seamwork to play around with.  An outfit I'm kind of excited about is made up entirely of Seamwork pieces, and knit fabric.  Right now the skirt doesn't fit super well, but I made it for when I'm a little bit bigger.


I did a ton of planning around some of these outfits, but unfortunately fabric constraints mean I had to do a bit of rearranging or changing of color.  Luckily, I had my moodboard and Pinterest to help me out.  I realized that I forgot to show you my moodboard from last post.  WHOMP HERE IT IS:

Weirdly enough, I feel like a lot of these images just explain my life too.  Like succulents, love them.  They are so difficult to kill.

Overall, in the past week I have finished a skirt, two t-shirts and a sweater.  Plus, I have fabric for another sweater and another tee-shirt. Now, the pattern for the t-shirt as it is is pretty basic (you can see it above).  In Seamwork magazine (please don't think I drank the Seamwork cool-aid, I just found a place that has good basics for cheap) they also had a section called Block-Paper-Scissors where they show you how to modify one of their patterns.  I actually did it!  I modified the Jane tee shirt pattern to have a tie bottom.  Not only is it on trend (I have seen so many of my students with a tie front tee shirt this week, it's not even funny) but it makes the tee shirt for my purposes way more versatile.  I can tie it below or above my tummy, and it will still be wearable after the baby is born.  GENIUS.
No, I don't make the bed.  But I did make my shirt.
Hopefully, I can whip out a few more things before May begins and really crush my goal.  Plus, my mom is working on some stuff for me too, including a few easy sundresses and tops.


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