 Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. This year for a Me Made May like recap, I am participating in like a group effort. This is called hashtag Me Made May Lessons and there are several of us youtubers playing along. I have included in the description box links to all their channels so that you can go watch their Me Made May Lessons videos too but we're all answering seven questions about Me Made May that's supposed to, I don't know, give us some insight and help us process you know what we learned from Me Made May this year. So the first question is what prompted you to join Me Made May this year and honestly there was really nothing that prompted me to do it other than it was May and so that means it's time to do Me Made May. I have enough clothes Me Mades to get through an entire month and I really like showing them off and for people to see them I mean I mean that's the main reason why fashion even exists so yeah I love showing people what I've made and Me Made May is the perfect way to do that. What percentage of Me Made Clothes do you have in your closet? I would say well I mean are we factoring in like swimsuits and pajamas and stuff like that? I would say stuff that I wear like outside the house like not special occasion pool side or anything like that. I would probably have 60% if you factored in the swimwear and all that it would probably more like 40%. I have a couple pajamas that I've made no swimsuits no lingerie but I've got a ton of dresses and some tops so yeah maybe a good 40%. Do you still purchase ready to wear? If so has sewing changed the amount you purchased? Yes I'd still purchase ready to wear but only if it's on sale and then usually if the sale is on sale or I'll buy ready to wear from Goodwill if that really counts and it has changed what I purchase typically if I can make something I won't buy it but if it's stuff that I struggle with making or I don't enjoy making like I don't enjoy making t-shirts sorry not sorry so I don't make t-shirts I just buy them they're so inexpensive I know I know all the all that goes along with that I understand but I don't really wear t-shirts that often so it's not something I need a ton of but um what else oh pants still can't find sewing pattern that works and honestly to get pants to fit takes so long and it's so frustrating that I'd rather just buy ready to wear pants that fit in my hip and then bring them home and alter them to fit my waist that's what I've been doing with all my shorts this summer and it's worked out pretty well so far um so yeah obviously I still like I said buy swimsuits but not that many even though I live at the beach not as many as you think um bras and underwear still buy all those um what else I also I think I'm not buying stuff that's just like made like crap you know like I can't tell you the last time I bought something from Target or Old Navy or I mean even like Anteiler Loft in places like that sometimes I'll look at the construction and I'm like really uh no um so yeah it does give me a more critical eye for sure um did you learn anything new about your handmade clothing by joining the challenge yes every single year I learned something new um this year it was that you know you figure out these holes you have in your wardrobe right these gaps um where I would be doing something specific that day and I wouldn't have anything me made to fit it so I found myself overdressing for a lot of occasions um but really what I was missing is like casual um like casual tops that look good with jean shorts and like I said I don't love knit t-shirts so I'm talking like camisoles I'm talking like cute little just like boxy sleeveless tops um it was also very hot in May this year so you know that that factored in a lot I didn't wear jeans once um pants are definite no I didn't wear any of my maxi dresses except for one day um when it was a little bit cooler um or like I was going out at night or something anyways so yeah the holes are still in the separates category and um just and it's like I have separates to where to work but I don't have a lot of casual separates my work life has changed a lot I used to go to an office every day now I don't so there's a lot of different factors you know coming into play here but yeah that's what it was for me this year for sure um number five did you find anything difficult while participating in the challenge for me the most difficult darn part is filming yourself every day it's hard like you get ready you have your certain number of minutes that it takes you to get ready and you snooze your alarm the exact amount right times in order to fill that you know to give yourself just enough time to get ready so coming in here throwing the camera on the tripod take it you know all of that that was the most challenging part for me there were a couple of times when I had forgotten to do that or ran out of time and so I was doing it at the end of the day when I'm like you know it's like the last thing you want to do is put yourself on camera um but other than that it well it's not challenging it's fun to me I quite enjoy it what do you feel was the best about the challenge or lessons learned for you if any what do you feel was best about the challenge well I kind of just liked seeing everybody else's stuff too I mean it's not all about me um I enjoyed seeing everyone else's me maids I enjoyed like seeing how people's personal styles became very evident um even by own I would say in a way when you're looking at someone's collection of me maids you can tell just like what their lifestyles like what colors they like you know what things that they like to wear you know all of the moms had like a very specific like mom wardrobe you know what I mean and like the kids the younger girls that are like you know in college or you know just graduated from college had their specific wardrobe so I think it was kind of cool to see how everybody's style is represented you know by looking at like a whole catalog of all their clothes so hopefully that answers that question okay the last one is will you join the challenge again yes absolutely 100% you all should join the two if you haven't um you have a full 11 months to sew up on some clothes to wear and you go participate in next year's Me Made May 2019 so um I'm going to link a video here to last year's Me Made May lessons or what I learned from Me Made May videos so you can kind of see what I was talking about last year versus this year but um also go check out all the other girls channels that are in my description box and that's going to do it for me happy Me Made May and I'll see you all very soon bye