Sewing from scratch.
That used to scare me.
But after my week of crash course sewing, and in another desperate needing-a-gift-situation,
I felt motivated and sufficiently prepared to tackle my first from scratch sewing project!
It was February, just days away from my Nana's birthday, and I decided to make her a new apron...
she had been wanting one for quite a while.
After looking through mom's small supply of sewing patterns, I was out of luck.
There wasn't any thing that would work.
We (mom was my go-to person, I couldn't have made it through without her!) decided
to just wing it using various aprons of our own as a guide.
I traced one of our basic tie back aprons for the main body.
The back was altered by adding a yoke strap instead of just a loop around the neck.
Does that make sense?
I'm really not familiar with sewing lingo and terms yet, forgive me.
Can you see what I am talking about?
It is really hard to tell in this photo, but that is the back of the apron.
If you look hard you can see a piece of fabric that attatches the should straps horizontally.
Nana's old and favorite apron had lots of ruffles,
so I added them to the shoulders of my version.
There is one row of ruffles made in the main fabric that runs the whole length of the shoulder strap.
I also added a second, wider ruffle in a secondary pattern, these only over the shoulders.
My favorite part of this apron was the adorable pocket!!
I used a pattern I found on Pinterest, it was one of 25 other free pocket patterns!!!
So many adorable pockets, I had a hard time choosing.
In the end I went with this one.
The colors were even pretty similar to what I really used!
You can find the directions here.
I was surprised how easy it was! It was, after all, my very first pocket!
I even did it without mom's help, I have to say I was pretty dern proud of myself!
It was one of those whirlwind projects,
I was literally working on it just moments before it went into the gift bag!
Hmmm, maybe I should rename my blog 'Making It By the Seat of Her Pants'?!
Anywho...
I was so pleased with how it turned out, especially for my first *real* sewing project!
I think Nana liked it too. :)
she had been wanting one for quite a while.
After looking through mom's small supply of sewing patterns, I was out of luck.
There wasn't any thing that would work.
We (mom was my go-to person, I couldn't have made it through without her!) decided
to just wing it using various aprons of our own as a guide.
I traced one of our basic tie back aprons for the main body.
The back was altered by adding a yoke strap instead of just a loop around the neck.
Does that make sense?
I'm really not familiar with sewing lingo and terms yet, forgive me.
Can you see what I am talking about?
It is really hard to tell in this photo, but that is the back of the apron.
If you look hard you can see a piece of fabric that attatches the should straps horizontally.
Nana's old and favorite apron had lots of ruffles,
so I added them to the shoulders of my version.
There is one row of ruffles made in the main fabric that runs the whole length of the shoulder strap.
I also added a second, wider ruffle in a secondary pattern, these only over the shoulders.
My favorite part of this apron was the adorable pocket!!
I used a pattern I found on Pinterest, it was one of 25 other free pocket patterns!!!
So many adorable pockets, I had a hard time choosing.
In the end I went with this one.
The colors were even pretty similar to what I really used!
You can find the directions here.
I was surprised how easy it was! It was, after all, my very first pocket!
I even did it without mom's help, I have to say I was pretty dern proud of myself!
It was one of those whirlwind projects,
I was literally working on it just moments before it went into the gift bag!
Hmmm, maybe I should rename my blog 'Making It By the Seat of Her Pants'?!
Anywho...
I was so pleased with how it turned out, especially for my first *real* sewing project!
I think Nana liked it too. :)
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