Asheville and Beyond

First of all, thanks for all of your lovely comments about my dress!  :)  Now to take the opportunity to tell you about our mini vacation + C’s wedding.

We hopped in the car (a little later than we meant to, due to me finishing the sash for the dress) and drove from Madison (south central Wisconsin) to Asheville (Western North Carolina) in one day.  I didn’t get a photo of us getting started, but here’s one a couple of hours in at an Illinois interstate oasis, where Mr. 5 snapped a pic of me for Me-Made-May:

It took us 15 hours with stops (or was that 14 hours with a 1 hour time difference?  Either way, it was a long day), but we made it to our destination in one piece.

A Wedding Dress: Butterick 5882

OK, well, it’s not for my wedding…it’s the dress I made to wear to my dear friend C’s wedding!  Had you going there for a sec, didn’t I?

The wondrous Butterick 5882, AKA Gertie done good again.

Sewing this dress wasn’t too difficult.  Due to time constraints, I actually got the majority of it done in only two days.  I was fitting the top on the Friday before the wedding (which was on a Friday, so a week before the wedding and 6 days before we were starting our drive), and had a case of the f*ck its, during which I declared to Mr. 5 that I would not be making this dress…I would have to find something else.  I can be good at psyching myself out like that.

Me-Made-May ’13, Week 3 Recap

Well, I’ve made it through 3 weeks (well, 2.5…) of my pledge to wear something handmade every weekday of May, for a total of 23 days.  I’ve completed 13 of those 23 days so far.

Apparently the theme for this week was blue:

May 13th

Me Made: Hand knit Butterfly Cami in Jade Sapphire Lacey Lamb yarn
Cardigan: Old Navy
Cami:  Lady Hathaway (<3 u, Costco!)
Jeans:  Old Navy
Shoes (not shown):  Keen

Ich <3 Liebster

Das stimmt, lieblings, I’ve been presented with the Liebster award! Danielle of One Small Stitch Today was very kind to nominate me for this honor, and it’s been a delight to pore over the beautiful makes in her blog. Thank you, Danielle!

For those of you that don’t know, the Liebster is an award one blogger can bestow upon another, provided they have less than 200 followers. It seems the criteria regarding the award vary greatly between different instances of the Liebster, based on this Liebster origins blog post, so I’m just going to follow the information Danielle has outlined in her blog post:

To accept the award, I need to answer the 10 questions set by Danielle, then nominate another 10 bloggers, again with less than 200 followers, and give them another 10 questions. Seems pretty awesome to me! Here are my answers to Danielle’s questions:

Me-Made-May ’13, Week 2 Recap

Week two has finally met its end! I haven’t had trouble figuring out what to wear yet, but I’m thinking it’s going to get a bit challenging soon…

As a reminder, I pledged to wear something handmade every weekday of May, for a total of 23 days, and I’ve completed 8 days of those 23 so far. Here’s what I ended up wearing:

May 6th

Sorry for the blur! I decided to take all of my Me-Made-May photos with my iPhone…and the quality is not so spectacular on some of them.

Me Made: Butterick 5778 dress
Cardigan: Worthington
Shoes: Easy Spirit (yes, I’m old)