During our one year anniversary, Thomas and I spent New Year's Eve at Billy and Ali's house. I mentioned I needed some shorts to play our new game, Dance Central, and she went through her Take-To-Goodwill bag and scrounged up some shorts. In there, I found an awesome shirt with a nice, vintage floral print. Very 70s for sure.
"Ooh! I love this print!"
"Oh, you can have it..."
"Really?!"
"Yeah... go ahead."
"Really?!"
"Yeah... go ahead."
"I want to make an apron out of this..."
And there it goes. 2.5 months later, I'm finally picking up the project and running with it.
The above sketch shows part of the fabrics I'm using. I'm down to the pockets and trim.... The print is from Target's Liberty of London line, hence the AWESOME print! I would pay a nice chunk of change for prints like that... but free is good for me. It was a men's collared button up shirt. The teal blue belt with rhinestone center is made of chenille on one side and satin on the other. It was purchased from Mai's going away sale for $1 at her flea market booth. The green chenille fabric shown was given by Aunt Kay in Huntsville.
I'm almost done with apron! It was a lot easier than I anticipated- I think it's because I improvise what I have to work with instead of working against it. All I have to do is sew the pockets onto the apron, add the belt near the waist, and hopefully try and cinch that area so that it produces a nice ruffle effect. I may just specialize in men's shirt-gone-apron style.
Sort of like Pensacola designer Elle from www.xoelle.com. She's known for taking vintage ties(nice word for OLD and inexpensive!) and recreating them into bow ties. They're super cute but the same formula goes: specific clothing turns into new thing, wash, rinse, repeat.
I hope this little thing turns out well- this will be my first full-sized apron but second apron overall. My first was a pig-pink apron with handmade ruffles juxtaposed against a dark brown geometric pocket.
{Crys}
