New Apron for my Grand daughter

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I made a new apron for my grand daughter Junie, who will be 9 in a few days now. Here is a close up of the front of the apron, the pockets are only pinned on at this point.
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Here is the front once it is finished
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This is the back
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And this was the most fun part of the whole project.
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I put it on the underside of the yoke of the apron. This project was such an ordeal!!



Here is an email I sent to a couple people while working on the apron

Today I was determined to finish the apron I am working on for Junie's birthday. At about 2:00pm, I was feeling pretty good, I only had to sew on the rickrack, and put together the pockets.

Then I noticed a black spot in a very noticable place in the body of the apron! I had just pressed that place, so I figured it came off the ironing board cover, which was getting old. I attempted to remove the black spot, and only managed to make things worse! As I was trying to decide what to do, I found another black spot! Great!!

Well, rather than ruin more fabric on that old ironing board cover, I quickly drove to Bed Bath and Beyond and bought a new cover. Came home, ripped out the seams, cut out a new body for the apron.


To my great DISMAY, there in the center of the new apron body were three black spots!! It was a flaw in the printing of the fabric!! I had bought twice the amount of fabric I needed thinking I could make a couple of aprons from it. WEll, now I was in a quandry... I didn't have enough fabric to cut a third apron body. Thankfully I had made this one pretty long, so I was able to move the top of the pattern down a bit and recut it, minus the black spots.

By this time, it was about 4:30pm. Time to start dinner and get ready for services.

At dinner I drank some coffee, determined to finish this apron before I went to sleep tonight.

Well, I am now a bit further than I was at 2:00pm yesterday, it is now 4:00am!! I figure I better go to bed before the sun comes up!! It will now be Saturday evening before I can work on this again.



I think it turned out pretty good for having such a bad start!



Hope you all have a good weekend
 

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delia_peterson said:
Beautiful apron! Does she help with cooking? I know I loved to help at that age...:)
I find nine years to be a very helpful stage in life. Junie has lots of sibling, 11 of them to be exact. She is in the middle of the bunch. She likes ducks, so I found some duck fabric I thought would be good for her.
 

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I think adding that cross stitch label is cool..she will treasure that apron! I cross stitch alot, stress buster for me!
 

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delia_peterson said:
I think adding that cross stitch label is cool..she will treasure that apron! I cross stitch alot, stress buster for me!
I am seriously considering limiting my crafts to cross stitch and sewing. Getting rid of all my other "stuff" that I seldom use. Cross Stitch is portable, not too expensive to do, light to mail out.

And it would give me lots more space in my office/craft/computer room!
 

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Rebbetzin said:
delia_peterson said:
I think adding that cross stitch label is cool..she will treasure that apron! I cross stitch alot, stress buster for me!
I am seriously considering limiting my crafts to cross stitch and sewing. Getting rid of all my other "stuff" that I seldom use. Cross Stitch is portable, not too expensive to do, light to mail out.

And it would give me lots more space in my office/craft/computer room!
I know what you mean! lol! When I travel I always take something to work on...and I usually give something I have made for Christmas and birthdays. I have a coaster insert I am making as a set of 4 in a small ziploc bag in my backpack! So if I am waiting anywhere I can pull it out and work on it. :)
 
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