A new pair of jeans and Me Made March day 6- 11

To start off, I haven't got a picture of day 6 (Sunday) It wasn't spectacular, I was wearing the nautical jersey top from day 1 again with jeans. I went for an all day walk with a friend so I needed something easy and comfortable to wear.

day 7

I wore this dress.

day 8

Dress blogged here.

day 9

skirt blogged here and top here

day 10

dress blogged here

day 11

A new pair of jeans and do I love them. I really wanted to have a pair of dark high waisted jeans and here they are. They are made from my very trusted Burda pattern, however I did cut the legs a little slimmer, which still leaves them wide enough for me but not as huge as the patterns intends. I also skipped the front flap detail and added buttons straight onto the main trousers. I need your opinion on the buttons. I really liked them in the shop and I think they work with the red blouse combination but do they look a bit clown-ish? What do you think?

Me made March outfits 3,4 and 5

This is what I was wearing for the Me Made March challenge on day 3,4 and 5:

This is my 1960s shapeless sack dress aka the strawberry hospital gown/scrubs. It's shapelessness reminds me of hospital scrubs. Blogged about here.

I did my hair like this after watching Casey's tutorial the other day. She's so cute. I have never styled it this way but really like the look of it. A new hair style staple for the future!!!

I don't know what happened with the light in these pictures but I kind of like the effect.

I dipped into my new Spring palette collection again on day 4.

Red shorts blogged here and checked shirt/blouse blogged here. And yes I really like that cardigan. I have it in 3 different colours. You will probably see all 3 of them a lot during March as I am a wardrobe layering kinda girl.

And on day 5 another one of my favourites. I have worn this dress so many times now and can't get tiered of it. Blogged about here.

The cardigan was a lucky car boot sale find. It's all crochet lace around the sleeves and hem. I love it!! It only cost me £1.50 thank you very much.

Please excuse the quality of some of the pictures. I took some of the pictures in a rush before leaving the house, not realising how blurry they were. But you get the idea anyway, I think.

Last Spring palette outfit finished. Nautical top and circle skirt and Me made March day 1 and 2

Finally the last outfit I made as part of the Colette Spring palette challenge and outfit one of Me Made March. The top is a lovely soft jersey. I drafted the pattern by tracing just one of my simple jersey tops I have in my wardrobe. Nothing fancy, just front and back piece...fits easily due to the stretch in the fabric. I made my own self fabric bias binding to finish the neckline, armholes and hem (not shown in the pictures). The skirt is just a simple circle skirt I drafted when I made the two (1 and 2) lace dresses. I just drafted a waistband for this one since it's not attached to a bodice and voila a circle skirt. I used the same button on the skirt, trousers and shorts to keep it all tied together.

I hope you like my little Spring palette collection of nautical loveliness. I am sure these pieces will occur quite frequently during Me Made March. Who else has joined Zoe's Me Made March? Let me know so I can check out your daily outfits.

This leads to another question, would you like to see my MMM outfit posts on a daily or weekly basis or something in between?

And today's outfit: The only thing MM I am wearing is the blouse. Blogged about here.

Me made March

 Zoe from So, Zo has announced another Me Made/ Self stitched challenge for March and since a few of you readers were interested in more outfit posts, I decided to join. So here we go:

I, Bea sign up as a participant of Me-Made-March '11. I endeavour to wear a piece of clothing made by me paired with only vintage or thrifted pieces and accessories each day for the duration of March 2011'

I am looking forward to it. I certainly have enough dresses and separates now to not get too bored with them or bore you with showing them off and repeating myself too much. This means I better get my Spring palette collection finished!!

I have also finally found a great price for my belated 100 follower giveaway. But that will have to wait for another post.

Who else is going to take part in MMM?