{"id":65734,"date":"2018-05-18T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T12:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=65734"},"modified":"2018-05-31T05:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T09:56:10","slug":"sewing-small-talk-are-you-me-made-may-ing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/05\/sewing-small-talk-are-you-me-made-may-ing.html","title":{"rendered":"sewing small talk: are you Me Made May-ing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past eight years or so, many of us have participated in <a href=\"http:\/\/sozowhatdoyouknow.blogspot.com.es\/2018\/04\/me-made-may-18-sign-up-here.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Me Made May<\/a>, which is a challenge intended to encourage us to wear and enjoy the clothing we&#8217;ve made. I think it&#8217;s a lot of fun, and S has always been my mostly-willing photographer for the month. (If you&#8217;re playing along you can use the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/mmmay18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#mmmay18<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/you-made-may.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65736 size-large\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/you-made-may-760x636.jpg\" alt=\"Me Made May 2018\" width=\"760\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/you-made-may-760x636.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/you-made-may-500x418.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/you-made-may-768x642.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/you-made-may-1240x649.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fun of the challenge is that you can set your own participation level and guidelines, so it&#8217;s really up to each person how they play along. This year I just haven&#8217;t felt much like posting photos because of other things going on in my life, but I love to see what you&#8217;re wearing and posting. And I occasionally get a twinge to ask S to take a photo of my own outfits. (Who knows, maybe I&#8217;ll join in before the end of the month!)<\/p>\n<p>In any case, are you participating in Me Made May this year? And if so, what do you like about it? Do you have a favorite outfit so far this month?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s May, which means it&#8217;s Me Made May. Are you participating this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[20792],"class_list":["post-65734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-small-talk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/me-made-may-feature.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-h6e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75858,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2020\/10\/ways-to-wear-it-round-up.html","url_meta":{"origin":65734,"position":0},"title":"ways to wear it round-up","author":"Masha Richart","date":"October 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"We've enjoyed seeing the outfits you've put together for the Ways to Wear It Challenge. 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