Start With a Scarf 2022: the October Set

In Which She Changes Her Mind...

Y'all.  I had an epiphany.

See, the 'item to make' for the October wardrobe selections was a  flannel shirt.  I have the fabric...a blue and mint on white...and I plan to use a tweaked version of the Burda pattern I used for the Pink Twill Shirt.  But I have blue thread in the serger and, um, several blue things to make for the November set, so I was putting off the October shirt.  

Then I looked at what I wore today.

A blue t shirt from the 2020? I think?  Women's conference merch, blue jeans, and a fairly recently-purchased blue and white plaid flannel shirt from Land's End...love their flannel shirts, but sometimes the patterns on them are a little Out There, if you know what I mean.  Snagged the classic one on a sale.

Dude, why am I gonna stress about making a shirt when I have a perfectly acceptable one already?

So that means the October set is ready to post, lol.

Janice's additions were "Three cold weather tops, earrings, boots or sneakers, and gloves".  

I had a blue Lands' End mock turtleneck already...I mean, doesn't everyone?  Hunted for a blue hoodie; something a little nicer than my gray Turkey Run hoodie that I wear because it's warm, and found a nice midweight basic blue zip hoodie (with pockets!  It had to have pockets!) at Quince.  Bonus points for reminding me a lot of a sweatshirt I had and loved in high school, lol.

 I thought I had some blue leather gloves but I hunted all OVER and couldn't find them, so I ended up getting some Alpaca gloves from Novica.  The fingers are a little long for me, but ALL gloves are too long in the fingers; I just have shrimpy hands.  They will work for driving, lol.  I also puzzled over the footwear.  I have some blue Taos sneakers that I thought about putting in the set but I stumbled onto a pair of Cobb Hill blue lace up boots that are waterproof and...I got them.  (Wore them to church on a rainy Sunday and got compliments on them from twenty-somethings, so there's that).  I wasn't sure what I would do about the earrings...but that could be decided at the last minute.  

 All of that was waiting for me to make the flannel shirt.

So I will use something I have and I'll move the mint-and-blue shirt to Phase Two, lol.  Then I can work on the crazy math for the skirt I'm making for the November set without feeling like I'm getting behinder because I'm out of order.

And I thought about which earrings should be added and I decided on the earrings my hubby got me for Christmas...replaced a kinda similar pair that disappeared whilst we were on vacation last September (a true mystery).  I think the low key shine is perfect here.

Casual?  This almost looks downright lumberjacky...lol.  But that's life in the early 2020's....

All the clothes so far:

I just did a quick count; 34 garments...I bought 11 since the start of the challenge, made 12, and pulled 11 out of the closet.  Pretty even.

All the Accessories so far:

Now I can focus on the items for November.  A velvet Hippy Earth Mother Skirt?  Hmmm....