Gathered Skirt Girly Aprons

Aprons!  I've been making aprons!  I've written before about my enthusiasm for sewing some girly-girl items when my boys need birthday presents for their female classmates.  Here are two more examples hot off my sewing machine.

Here's how I did these.  I started with my Child's Apron Tutorial.  I used only the top (bib) section and cut the skirt off, leaving 11.5" from the top edge.  I then cut the skirt panel the width of the fabric and 11.5" long.  I ran gathering stitches along the top edge and pinned the skirt to the top section.  I pulled up the gathering to fit and stitched the two together.  I then hemmed the sides with a double-folded hem.  The ruffles were both cut 4" wide.  The bottom ruffle was two fabric widths seamed together.  The top ruffle was about half the fabric width.  I finished the ends of the ruffles first by folding right sides together and stitching.  I then turned and folded the remaining strip wrong sides together, forming a 2" wide strip, before running my gathering stitches along the matched cut edges.  I serged all of the raw edges on the inside of the apron (waist seam and bottom ruffle seam) for a clean finish.  I bound the top edge and the armholes according to the original tutorial.

Here are some of the aprons I've made.  You can see all of the posts by clicking here.