it’s time for slow fashion october, aka one of my favourite check-ins of the year! similar to me-made may as far as being an opportunity to review your wardrobe, i actually like slow fashion october better because of the conversations that come from it, and the focus on slow fashion as a whole rather than solely me-made items. here’s an example of some items that i love and wear and would “qualify” within slow fashion october but not me-made may…

with everyday magic volume ii: open-hearted, i debuted a bit of a shift in my knitwear models - my dear one, bryce, wears two of the three patterns. i chose him for a few reasons, some of which are really complex, others of which feel like second nature, but basically it boiled down to this:

• using only myself for photos gets tricky, especially for certain kinds of items (although i'm getting better at them, but it's still more enjoyable to spend a shorter period of time getting a bunch of good shots rather than spending an hour twisting myself into a pretzel for semi-focused shots)

• i'm very bad at a) asking for help b) having the patience to rearrange my packed schedule to accommodate others' similarly packed schedules and c) feeling comfortable asking someone for something that i then need to rely on them for

• i'm a femme and style things as such, which means i inevitably get people asking why i don't design "things for men". that's the primary topic of this post.

slow fashion april has given way to me-made may. it's my favourite time of year to check in with my slow fashion journey and see how my wardrobe has grown and shifted over the course of the past year. when i first started participating four years ago, i think i had two dresses and maybe one top to wear, and then a rotation of handknit shawls. my wardrobe has shifted drastically since then, particularly in the past half year or so since i left my full-time office day job to a part-time work-from-home admin job/creative self-employed biz life all the rest of the time.