Wearing Handmade: Week 1 {Slow Fashion October}

It almost feels like a joke to post these pictures in any connection with the word "fashion." I've always been fashion challenged, so you won't find any cute, put-together outfits here. It's been a wet, dreary week and I just want to be cozy and wrapped in wool all the time. Combine that with the darkness making it really difficult to get pictures of what I'm wearing...I'll try to do better next week! :)

Day 1: I wore this floral button up shirt that I made a few years ago. The fit isn't as great as I thought back then, plus it has a stain on the front, so now it's an around-the-house sort of shirt. I also wore my summer socks and some old, much-mended jeans. (That have now developed a hole at the knee. Guess that should be on my list to fix for this month, huh?)

Day 2: Not going to lie...I basically spent all day in my pajamas on Friday. I thought I would be rushing around that day, getting ready for my first craft fair of the season on Saturday, but it was postponed until later in the month because of this crazy rain and wind. Thank goodness, because it would have been miserable yesterday! (Though I now have festivals two Saturdays in a row.) So I spent the day spinning and knitting in my pajamas. Those are my New Year's socks and I made the pajama pants made out of cute crafty-themed flannel.

Day 3: On Saturday, I worked on a wearable muslin for a new shirt. Slow Fashion October has already motivated me to start sewing again! It was chilly in the house so I wore my first sweater. (In just two years, it has become so pilled and somehow even larger than it was then...I don't really wear it out in public anymore, ha.) I apologize for being really bad at taking pictures of myself. (In the background you can see a remnant of the many years I spent being obsessed with Elvis.)

Day 4: Wow, I'm finally wearing real clothes! :) Today to church I wore my first swing dress, which I made back in 2011. That's one of my sewn garments that has held up really well and that I still love to wear. I also wore my red Multnomah shawl that I finished earlier this year. I really need to knit a lightweight cardigan to replace this one...I bought it at Target about four years ago and it's pretty faded.