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I just signed up for the Me Made March '11 challenge on Zoe's blog  and am excited!  The idea is to wear at least 1 handmade garment a day for the entire month.  I say I'm excited, although I have to be honest...the idea of taking photos of myself for a month is a little terrifying!  That's partly why I'm doing the challenge, it's nice to step outside the box every now and then.  In my mind I just tell myself it's a great excuse to play dress up for a month :)  There is a chance I'll be away for a week in March for work so that could mess things up, but I will find a way to make it work! Now if I can just get my sew-along trousers finished I will be feeling pretty pleased with myself.  Oh, and the muslin for Casey's sew-along.  Wait, did I just sign up for a month-long challenge and I'm still working on trousers and haven't made a muslin yet for the swing dress?  Oh boy.

So busy with work and other things this past week I haven't really been able to work on anything sewing related.  Very sad times indeed!  I was hoping to cut out my fashion fabric (a sand wool crepe, feels so nice) for The Cupcake Goddess' Trouser Sew-Along, but I'm only just making corrections to my 2nd muslin.  At least those aren't too complex and I hope to be cutting out my fashion fabric by this weekend.  I saw this movie, Easy Virtue , a couple months ago and Jessica Biel's trousers have been good inspiration as I work on mine!  Sunni put this up on her blog as inspiration too.  Mine are from the '40s, but hey, a wide leg's a wide leg! Jessica Biel in '20s wide-leg trousers in the movie, Easy Virtue (2008) I'm also shortening the bodice on my 1940s Swing Dress as part of Casey's Sew-Along. Knowing how busy work and life was going to be over the next however many months I planned these sew-alongs to go with my color palette for the CP spring