without further ado...

THE APRON POST!

oh yay! my apologies on this taking so long. been under the weather a bit and busy making stuff. :)

my love for aprons started with me great grand-mother Inace Mae Owen. every year,for christmas, she gave basically everyone she knew an apron. somehow, as fate would have it, i got her ridiculously fabulous sewing machine when she passed.

i also inherited her love for sewing.

last year when i visited my nana, she gave me one of grandma owens aprons.

isn't it lovely??

it's so nice to know that she was fashionable as well as talented. :)

that was all it took. one black and white apron, with pocket and lace trim.

it had me at hello!

haha.

when i got home last year i went straight to my pile of random goodies and pulled out some old green sheets and a piece of upholstery fabric that had made a valance out of for, my nana.

my very first apron. i must admit i believe i spent more time pulling it apart than i did putting it together! it took me forever to finish!

i didn't have a pattern so this was also my first attempt at drafting one.

fast forward a year and they are still my favorite things to make!

(i am getting better at making them from scratch too!)

this one i made for suzan, because she has started frequenting a once-a-month cooking club

and didn't have one.

sad day, right?

i also made her a full length one:

my favorite part about this one???

the cute pleats in the back of course!

so you would think that after making almost a bazillion aprons i would never use a pattern.

that's what i thought.

until i stumbled on the most

AMAZING

website on the inter-web.

burda style has become one of my best friends ever!

as soon as i saw the obi apron, i knew i had to try it out.

remember this fab fabric from the salvation army?

it was two-dolla

half off!

it is now a fabulous obi apron!

(nikki so kindly sent these pics to me as i forgot to take a pic of them before i gave them to her)

i also made this one for her:

isn't she she so dang cute???

i miss this girl!

i also got inspired the other day by a headband i got about three years ago from

(of all places)

walgreens.

i made a few and thought i'd share:

i up-cycled these from old t-shirts and a skirt that was WAY too short.

kinda fun and flirty i think.

thank you mel for modeling!

alrighty folks ta-ta for now!