I’ve made aprons for Kate before, but never for myself. Time to change that! I got this awesome book for Christmas and have been totally inspired.
Incidentally, I also got a subscription to the magazine and I am thrilled. It’s seriously the best magazine ever. Go subscribe now. 🙂 Back to aprons though, I have been wanting to make one for a while, but it seemed way too complicated. Enter page 29.
Awesome! It doesn’t even have to be hemmed! Sign me up. 🙂
Now, those of you who have met me in real life know that I am not generally considered to be in the one size fits all camp, so I changed it up a bit. Instead of cutting the waist part with a 4 inch diameter, I went with 8. Let me just tell ya, 6 may have been better. The apron is ridiculously short and I had to trim it down so it wasn’t quite so wide. Whoops. Eh, I still think it’s cute. 🙂
Instead of hemming it, you edge it with bias tape. Man, where has this stuff been all my life?!? Apparently, you’re supposed to use double fold bias tape, but that would require me to a. pay attention to the pattern and b. remember it when I’m out shopping. Not likely. I ended up with single fold so I just folded it over myself, stitched it down with a zigzag stitch and it worked fine. I considered ironing it, but I only iron under extreme duress. I like that it added a little pop of color as well.
I actually busted out some pins when I did the waist because I wanted to make sure that there was an even amount of bias tape at both ends to make the ties. I tried to keep the tape folded over for the ties, but that made it was too narrow to feed through the sewing machine. In the end, I just left it wide and stitched up the middle of the tape to catch both ends.
Here’s the finished waist band.
And the hem.
Michael even agreed to take a picture of it on. 🙂 Go forth and make an apron for yourself! Cooking is way more fun when you have a sassy apron.