Every sister needs an Apron

 My sister shared this in her cake making page in FB.

This is what she said.

"This apron was designed by my sister , Nana Ghazali..quite creative she is ... She bought a pair of culottes (had to google how to spell that), cut it into 4 ..the upper front part, which was really nice, became a part of an apron for Aspara Rusli and I got the backside bit .... Cool eh? The kembang part at the bottom became part of dresses for her two daughters ..... She does all sorts of cool things like baby blankets, reusable cloth diapers etc .... baby slings, too!"

Lovely!

Denim skirt apron

Yet another happy owner for a surprise birthday present.........made with passion and love :) for the sister of Kak Veena, my sisters' friend.

I think it looks good on her. Don't you think so?

Top & Skirt Jeans Apron

So finally I finished the refashion jeans I planned to make which I purchased recently. I really like how it came out. I hope the owner likes it too. I got this idea from a blogger friend Ms SewLove :) The pictures doesn't do justice here but that's how it is with me and my camera phone. We do have our good times, just not this time :)

The flared jeans. It already has a nice studded pearls just below the pocket line.

Opened up the seam to get the front and back and cut off the flare bit

(which is for other projects)

So you know now what I am going to do with the back part? Another apron....yes!

Coming up soon I hope.....

The personalised embroidered print 'Senior Masterchef Mummy'.

Didn't have any other ideas at the moment, so added the string belt.

It looks much better in real life, trust me.

Jom Jahit Apron

My apron was listed in the Jom Jahit Apron eventhough it was a coincidental participation...I am glad I was listed.....maklumlah saya baru berjinak-jinak nak mencari kawan dalam blogging sewing community ni...

Thanks. This makes my day!

Happy owner means happy sewer

I got tagged on FB of the happy owner wearing the 1st apron ever made by moi. And its reversible too....What can be more fulfilling than knowing the person had the happiest day receiving and wearing your handmade work.

BTW, Happy Birthday Lily!

Side A

Side B and a happy camper!

My 1st Apron

*One of the many rare long post. Consider yourself pre warned :P

I'm glad my sister proposed that I make this project for her friends' niece, for a fee, which made it more interesting! Kerching! Hehe

I have sewing books and magazines on instructions of how to make an apron. I have been wanting to make one but too lazy, no motivation or no material to make one. Its always something, as usual.

So this 10 year old birthday girl loves to cook, loves blue, pink and yellow and her aunt wants to surprise her with an apron. How nice.

My sister passed me an apron she bought as a sample. I just followed the 'pattern' and the rest was my creativity. Creative la sangat! I made a reversible mostly blue and pink apron which turn out really nice. I love it so much I wanted it for myself. :P I wanted to make adjustable neck too but the whole piece turned out a bit heavy due to the material used. So it was a fixed neck band.

The light weight 'pattern' I used. Since there is no front and back coz its reversible, I'll just call it side A and side B. I cut 2 piece of the body with 2 different material, 2 pockets of different material, a long 3" bias (2 times the length of the desired pleat length) for the pleat, 2 4" rectangle for the tie back ( to your desired length), 4" rectangle for the neck band (to your desired length), 1" bias for the rest of the sides where there is no pleats, 4 buttons and a good mood (very essential this). Prepare all of the above before piecing together (not being to helpful aren't I). Message me if those reading wants to know how I made this in detail coz I'm not sure anybody does read this anyway.

For the pleats, I fold and press the 3" bias in half and fold and pin each one. I didn't know this is exactly how it should be done until I saw one of Crafterhours post on a blouse they made. I only made this because I know I am going to screw and mess this if I sew on the machine without pinning.

After that, machine baste the opened sides so you will keep everything in place before the actual attachment to the body. You can hand baste I guess but I was too lazy.

I sew on the pockets first to the body on each side. You will see later that I changed the flowery pocket for side A to a plain pink. My sister thought it was too contrasting but I like it actually. My hubby says it looks like patch work which is nice. But customer is always right, so I decided to change it anyway just in case it was too much for the birthday girl to contain. :P Here I pinned the pleats and tie back inwards.

Then I hand baste them together. Place the right side of side B (with pocket already sewn on) on the right side of side A and sew the piece together up to the top of the tie back band.

Turn them inside out and it will look like the above. This was after I sent them to the printer to print ambroidered wordings "Junior Masterchef LILY" on both sides. Sew the binding of the remaining body areas and sew the neck band on. I sew the neck band last just so that I could do the adjustable buttons. After I decided not to do adjustable, I sew it on the binding aligning the stiches so that it looks more neat. Last, I sew the buttons on both sides just for decor.

My niece, Amira, trying out the apron. How cute is that?