The Garish Plaid Apron
I've been sewing up a storm lately! Mainly because I go back to school on Sunday and won't have access to my sewing machine until the weekends, so I'm trying to get as much use out of it as I can. It's so weird to think that tonight is the last night that I will go to bed and then wake up and it will still be 2009. I have a weird feeling that I will like 2010 more than I liked 2009, so I'm oddly looking forward to the new year. Plus, we celebrate New Year's Eve Polish-style, which means that this is the one time I year I have an excuse to eat donuts.
Anyways, I made this apron the other day after mom went through her fabric stash in the linen closet in the hallway. Mom has a bag of old fabric that her mother gave her, and lots of the stuff is pretty hideous, 1970s prints. I found this odd shaped piece of fabric in there:
I think somebody was trying to make a dress, but I really have no idea what this was supposed to be. The person who was working on this gathered the top with white thread (and tacked it to a band with terrible hand-stitching) and then sewed another band on top of it. I think this is from the 1970s, and I'm pretty sure there's some synthetic fibers in there. However, I thought this had potential, and the plaid was just so awesome that I instantly though apron - not 19th century apron, but I needed a modern apron for when I (occasionally) cook.
After ripping the bands off the top, and less than an hour of sewing, I had created this:
It's a bit tinier than I would have liked, although I didn't have that much fabric to work with. I plan on adding pockets on the bias to it, as well, so that I can use it when I sew and need to hold some small little notion without losing it.