Me-Made Rainbow

Me Made May is something I’ve participated in for the past number of years (if you’ve never heard of it, you know how to google); most years I post a handful of outfits the first couple of weeks and then slowly lose steam on the posting, but still! it’s always been fun to have that focus of wearing me-mades all month long.

This year with everything happening with COVID and the fact that I rarely leave the house I wasn’t sure the level to which I would participate. I’ve had very little time or energy to sew anything new. However, this year MMM has surprisingly unfolded into a fun personal challenge for me: instead of sewing new things, I looked for inspiration from the myriad homemade items that I wear on the regular and realized I could put together a handmade rainbow. I decided to wear my me-mades more or less in rainbow order, and I used the hashtag #sewmyownrainbow to gather them all up.

Here’s what I’ve worn so far this month (listed by row, top to bottom):

Green Cleo Maxi Skirt / Off-white silk noil Cleo Skirt / Green Jade Tee + Nani Iro Double Gauze striped Cleo Skirt

Striped Aqua Isla Dress / Modified Josephine with tassel ties / Liberty Gemma with ruffle

Nani Iro Double Gauze Matcha Top + Gold linen Rose shorts / Gold Starry Bespoke Double Gauze Luna Pants / Yellow Jade Tee

Floral cotton Rose cropped pant + Striped Jade tee / Gold tencel linen Emerald crop top + Pink Rose cropped pants / Cropped Gemma Tank + Gold Blackwood Cardigan

Roscoe Blouse + caramel cropped Rose pants / Josephine with ruffles and added tucks / Cropped Emerald top + brown Rose pants

Chestnut double gauze Washi dress + Wiksten Haori Jacket / Rayon Washi maxi dress / Red lawn Beatrix without buttons

Here are the patterns:

Made by Rae: Cleo, Luna, Gemma, Washi, Emerald, Beatrix, Jade, Isla, Josephine, Rose

Wiksten: Haori / Sew Liberated: Matcha / Helen’s Closet: Blackwood Cardigan / True Bias: Roscoe

Here are the tutorials for some of the pattern mods:

How to make a Beatrix without buttons
How to add ruffles to the Gemma tank
How to crop the Gemma tank
Washi Maxi Tutorial
How to make Isla in a striped fabric

And, just in case you missed it — we’re running a sale right now on all PDF patterns until the end of May - so just a couple days left to grab 15% off regularly-priced PDF patterns (not bundles, sorry) with the code WASHI15.