Fun Spring Apron

Another apron...I know.

What can I say, I love apron and I guess I am becoming the apron lady to my sisters. Anytime there is a birthday or shower they tell me I should make an apron, and that is how this one came to be. My sister-in-laws birthday was a few weeks ago and she is so hard to shop for. So my other sis-in-law said that I needed to make her an apron because she loves the other one's I've made and has wanted one too. So I knew what to get her and I have been looking (loving, fondling, ogling; I sound like a fabric pervert) at this fabric for a while at Joann's wanting to make something from it.

Funny enough, this fabric although new, was the same print on a vintage apron pattern package!

How crazy, right!?

I have never done the heart bodice with the ruffles and they were surprisingly easy. Althoug, next time I think I need to make it just a little wider through the heart-part of it. I made the fabric flower in the center, but then never sewed it on before I gave it to her. I made this the night before we went to breakfast and was just finishing when they came to get me in the morning, I took so long deciding whether or not I liked the flower that I had to leave before I decided!

I think I like it better with the flower...or maybe without....I don't know.

What do you think?

With the flower.

 

Without the flower.




Don't you just love this fabric?!







More aprons...

This apron was a gift as well, but I bought it as a kit---I know, hang my head in shame---but it was just so cute and I was short on time. I got it at Joann's using my 40% of coupon and it ended up costing only about 10$. It was easy to make, but the fabric was so awful. It was that stiff, cheap, printed kind. I added a bias tape and gathered a little more than it called for at the flower, but just wasn't quite right. It turned out cute, but it wasn't the quality that I would've liked. I might have to make it with "good" fabrics and see what happens. I think that I would make a fabric flower too instead of the paper one, I could just imagine spaghetti sauce all over it. I LOVE the pearls and flower.

This silly apron was made from a old skirt that my mom gave me that was just too big. I took it apart, keeping the waist and just cutting a curve at the bottom. Then I made a thick ruffle--I love ruffles-- out of some leftover pink that I had from my daughter. Another "free" apron. I think the thing I love the most about this apron is the heart pocket. I feel so girly when I wear it, very french maid. I made this apron for a camping apron....who says you can't be cute in the woods?

Vintage Aprons

Here are 2 aprons that I made for my sister and mother-in-law this spring. They were really easy. I just looked at a bunch of vintage aprons and then sketched, on a piece of wrapping paper, a pattern. (I transfer all my patterns on thicker wrapping paper so they last more than one time.) Since it was an apron, it was really easy and I didn't have to worry about it the fit too much. Each apron was a yard of fabric and almost 2 packages of bias tape. Sorry the pictures are so blurry.

I really liked this one, it had the retro feel that was perfect for my mother-in-law.

This on I gathered the bodice and then attached the lower half, covering with bias tape. I used the tape for the ties in the back. If I made this one again I think I would add a bow or flower in the front center and make larger ties in the back.