an almost completed button up shirt, and it’s the end of week 20! – The Self-Made Wardrobe Week 20
The Self-Made Wardrobe is a project where I only wear garments I’ve made.
It’s sort of a year long experiment in getting dressed without clothing labels.
DAY 134 – DECEMBER 12th
Boring Black Sweater
Basic Black Tank Top
Graphic Silk Circle Skirt
Grey Tights
Brown Boots
Bead Crochet Bracelet
Various Rings
I absolutely love this boring black sweater. As much of a boring nightmare as it was to knit (and it was really boring), I can wear it with anything in my wardrobe, and it’s the perfect weight for a light winter layer. I guess sometimes sucking it up and knitting the boring things is totally worth it.
DAY 135 – DECEMBER 13th
Blue Kimono
Grey Cowl
Basic Black Tank Top
Cascading Flowers Skirt
Various Rings
This blue kimono was one of the very first things I made for the self-made wardrobe and I wore it almost constantly throughout the summer and into the fall. It turns out is also make a perfect layer for when I’m working from home.
DAY 136 – DECEMBER 14th
Versio Sweater
Basic Black Tank Top
Graphic Silk Circle Skirt
Black Tights
Black Heels
Pocket Watch Necklace
Various Rings
This sweater was kind of an experiment in making yarn from my yarn stash (which is almost entirely single skeins of lace weight yarn) work for sweater knitting. It turned out to be a quite successful experiment if I do say so myself. A colorful experiment – but a successful one.
DAY 137 – DECEMBER 15th
Moonstruck Cardigan
Black Scarf
Black Maxi Skirt with a Slit
Black Tights
Brown Boots
Bead Crochet Bracelet
One of the benefits of freelancing and working a lot from home is that I have a really flexible schedule, and can usually take photos in the late morning/midday/early afternoon when the light isn’t streaming directly into my living room – but then, some days that just doesn’t work out and I take squinty-eyed, coffee drinking morning photos.
DAY 138 – DECEMBER 16th
Boring Black Sweater
Blue & Green Archer Button Up
Graphic Silk Circle Skirt
Black Tights
Brown Boots
Pocket Watch Necklace
Various Rings
My first version of Archer is so close to done I can taste it, and couldn’t help but wear it (even though it still doesn’t have buttons.) I had actually finished the hem that morning, and had already gotten dressed, taken photos, and was walking out the door, when I decided to change. I exchanged my deconstructed sweater for an unfinished Archer, and boring black sweater, and quickly snapped a couple more photos – it was definitely the right choice.
DAY 139 – DECEMBER 17th
Blue & Green Archer Button Up
Black Scarf
Black Maxi Skirt with a Slit
Black Tights
Brown Boots
Various Rings
This wasn’t the warmest winter wardrobe decision I ever made – but it worked out fine, and I’m getting buttons for Archer today, so hopefully it’ll be properly done this weekend. Yay!
DAY 140 – DECEMBER 18th
Transitional Weather Sweater
Black Scarf
Cascading Flowers Skirt
Grey Tights
I don’t know why I tend to sit cross-legged in this skirt, but it would seem I do.
Also! It’s the end of Week 20! We’re quickly approaching Day 150!
(and still, I just want a pair of damn pants. I’ve wanted a pair of pants since week 6, and the only person ‘at fault’ for me not having pants, is me… damn it.)
this week, I’m knitting a sweater completely out of order
Each Wednesday, I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on.
This week I focused my knitting time on my super simple raglan pullover. And what should have been a straightforward sweater, turned into a not-so-straightforward project.
Because, I’m knitting this thing completely out of order.
I started at the neck, planning a basic top down raglan sweater.
I knit the neckline, the yoke, the waist decreases and got to the waist.
Then I tried it on, and hated how the neckline looked.
So I put the sweater on hold until I decided what to do.
Eventually, I decided to cut the entire yoke off.
So I cut off the yoke, and wound that yarn back into a ball.
I put those stitches on waste yarn, and worked through the hip increases.
The body was done. (Maybe. I might decide it’s not actually done.)
Then I put the body of the sweater, (without it’s yoke), aside.
Using a provisional cast on, I cast on for the bicep circumference of the first sleeve, and knit three inches. Then I did the same for the second sleeve.
I put the lives stitches for both sleeve stumps on extra circular needles,
then picked out both provisional cast ons and put those on 2 more needles.
I picked the torso of the sweater back up,
removed the waste yarn that I inserted after cutting off the yoke,
slipped the underarm stitches onto (yet more) waste yarn,
and knit the sleeves to the sweater body.
Now I’m knitting the yoke. Again.
Then the plan is to knit the rest of the sleeves, and maybe add length to the body.
Because why should a straightforward sweater be straightforward.
The Self-Made Wardrobe Week 17
The Self-Made Wardrobe is a project where I only wear garments I’ve made.
It’s sort of a year long experiment in getting dressed without clothing labels.
DAY 113 – NOVEMBER 21th
Moonstruck Cardigan
Woven Scarf
Black Maxi Skirt with a Slit
Grey Tights
Brown Boots
Various Rings
It was one of those crazy bright, freezing cold sort of days. Note to self: your really really need to get the rest of your winter boots resoled. Like yesterday…
DAY 114 – NOVEMBER 22nd
Deconstructed Black Sweater
Basic Black Tank Top
Cascading Flowers Skirt
Brown Boots
when u was making this sweater I didn’t think I would absolutely love it quite as much as I do. But then again what’s not to love about a huge cozy black sweater? And the fact that it works with absolutely every skirt I own, just makes it that much better.
DAY 115 – NOVEMBER 23rd
Versio Sweater
Basic Black Tank Top
Khaki Scarf
Gingham Skirt
Sneakers
Various Rings
All of the colors! Because why the heck not.
DAY 116 – NOVEMBER 24th
Blue Kimono
Basic Black Tank Top
Khaki Scarf
Black Maxi Skirt with a Slit
Black Flats
Various Rings
But seriously, what else can you wear under a 100% alpaca coat when it’s 60 degrees at the end of November. (In fact I ended up taking off the kimono, and was still too warm.)
DAY 117 – NOVEMBER 25th
Blue Kimono
Basic Black Tank Top
Pirate Skirt
Bicycle Clock Necklace
Various Rings
It wasn’t 60 degrees, like it was on day 117, but it was still warm enough not to need a sweater.
DAY 118 – NOVEMBER 26th
Boring Black Sweater
Basic Black Tank Top
Cascading Flowers Skirt
Victorian Lady Necklace
Various Rings
Some days require more multi-tasking than others.
DAY 119 – NOVEMBER 27th
Boring Black Sweater
Basic Black Tank Top
Woven Scarf
Black Maxi Skirt with a Slit
Black Tights
Black Flats
And it’s proper November weather again! Hope you had a fantastic thanksgiving, if your in the US, and an all around great Thursday, if you’re not!
