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.
