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May 29, 2008 at 11:06 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Several weeks ago I mentioned the apron swap project. Well, here is my finished apron that I am putting in the mail today. I am hoping my far-away-apron-recipient will like it and I anxiously await the arrival of my own apron any day now!

A long time ago, before toddlers, I used to love to sew and really was a fairly accomplished seamstress. And then my 6th child was born. Joe was absolutely fascinated with the sewing machine and just couldn’t leave it alone. Then when he was older and loved doing all sorts of projects himself, he would always pull out the craft box to work alongside of me. As lovely as that sounds (at least it should sound lovely to a homeschooling mom) it was actually quite annoying. So I put my machine away for a long time.

When Mollie became engaged, she really wanted me to make her wedding dress, so Clay bought me a new Bernina, a wonderful gift that was less than the cost of a wedding gown! We managed to make not only her dress but several other items for the wedding. The whole process makes for a lovely memory but I still haven’t sewn much in the past 7 years since then, mostly because I sort of burned out on sewing. This apron project will, hopefully, insight me into further fabric feats!

Now I hope to finish a rag doll and a dress for Penelope for her birthday.


9 Comments»

  Lin wrote @ May 30, 2008 at 1:40 am

Ok, true confessions. I have been known to use masking tape for hems. I hate sewing because I could never get past threading the machine. :O)

Your apron is beautiful. But perhaps my expertise is in other areas…I just finished ripping the carpet off my stairs. I long for beautiful wood plank stairs and I have beautiful oak planks under there. Lots of work ahead but I can see those stairs now!

  Talia wrote @ May 30, 2008 at 1:51 am

this is so cute!! I love your design, and it looks like you did a fantastic job. It’ll be such fun to see the one you receive!

  thatmom wrote @ May 30, 2008 at 2:17 am

LIn, our house was built in 1894 and when we bought it 24 years ago, there was so much work to be done. We began ripping the old carpet off of the wood floor one room at a time. In most of them there was this horrible brown and blue shag carpeting that was backed with foam that had been glued down. So we had to scrape and scrape and scrape. Finally enough came off so we could rent a sander and get the wood down to the original oak. It was such hard work but was so beautiful. We had finished all the floor both upstairs and down when we had a fire in our house! It gutted all the upstairs and did smoke damage everywhere. The first thing I saw when I walked in the door after the firemen left was the huge hole in the floors in the front upstairs hallway. All that work…it was unbearable! Well, the good news is that we had replacement value insurance so we got all new wood floors. Had the carpet still been there, they would have only replaced the carpeting and not the oak underneath!

Here’s to all your hard work and basking in the finished project!!!

  thatmom wrote @ May 30, 2008 at 2:18 am

Talia, I liked the apron enough that I would like to make one for me now!

BTW, it is sitting on the first garage sale of the season find for 2008. I got both the bench and a matching chair for $30.00. Stacy was telling me all about Jessica’s spray painting projects so I may attempt that on the bench. We shall see.

  Susan Tuttle wrote @ May 30, 2008 at 10:08 pm

Great apron Karen! I’ve collected a few old aprons circa 1940-60 from older relatives and I always buy the old reproduced apron patterns when the patterns are on sale at JoAnns.

I too used to sew… actually profesionally… just before our first was born thru our second… until I burned out and could find no time to sew for them. I stopped for others, made a few things for the girls and occasionally baby gifts or machine quilts until I cut back to about once a year projects. Once we finish our home reorganization/storage and I clean up my sewing area- again- I too would like once more to create and work a regular sewing time into our schedule 🙂

  Lin wrote @ May 31, 2008 at 1:51 am

I have friends who bought old homes (you have them beat with age!!) and they found such delights as they ripped it apart. It is tons of work but restoring the beauty of the original is wonderful!

What is so neat today is that you can find step by step instructions and tips online for free!

. I feel like Bob Vila and I have only started on a few stairs!! :o)

  thatmom wrote @ June 3, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Susan, I love aprons from that era as well. I had planned on making some sort of I Love Lucy apron for my swap partner but she told me that she doesn’t like the really girly stuff so I will have to do that another time.

  Kerri wrote @ June 18, 2008 at 8:04 pm

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for the beautiful apron. I just love it! Your applique skills are top notch. You should be busting out the sewing machine more often and show off some of your hidden talents. The buttons were such a pretty added touch, especially the tiny little butterfly. This swap has been such fun I will be posting about the apron on my blog soon, just need to get all this pesky work out of the way first. Again, thank you all the way from Canada.

  thatmom wrote @ June 18, 2008 at 8:08 pm

Kerri, I am so happy that you liked the apron! I am inspired now and want to make one for myself! And the daughters-in-law. And the granddaughters! I will be dropping by your blog soon.

Have a blessed day,

Karen


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