Saturday, July 17, 2010
Emmeline and Karen
Karen, whom you may have met on Saturdays at the store, has a personality that bubbles over and like me, a love for all things with sparkles and glitter. She also loves skulls - punk rock skulls, metal and dangerous skulls.
For her birthday, I wanted to make her something that's been on her to do list for a long time: an apron. Last year she put out a request for apron patterns to make one for a friend, and I loaned her a my Emmeline Apron pattern.
One day at the store we were talking about how much we all loved the pattern, and how fun it would be to each have one as the Nurtured "uniform" but in all of our favourite fabric patterns - they would be very unique and diverse indeed.
Summer brings BBQs and kitchen parties, so what better to wear to a kitchen party than your very own Emmeline Apron?
The apron is reversible, and one side was a no brainer - Karen loves the Alexander Henry Calaveras print. For the reverse side, I decided on a 1950s retro housewife look with pink polka dots. The tricky part: Calaveras fabric is really, really difficult to find. I had to search far and wide and eventually order it in from across the continent.
The pattern consists of only two pieces and custom binding (which I never enjoy making but at least I'm getting better at it). It came together reasonably quickly, probably about 8 hours of work in total, but was still a fairly involved project with the binding and hand sewing required.
I still would like to make one of these for myself, though you may notice that the hop half of the apron is a bit saggy. I may have to wrangle with the pattern a bit to try and tighten it up so that I don't end up with flour down my shirt. If you are bigger busted, this is the perfect pattern for you, and it is very, very flattering regardless of figure type.
I haven't yet seen it on Karen, but I know she's thrilled with it (yay!) and she'll be surprised to find that I also sewed the apron with glow in the dark thread, for a little bit of extra fun after the sun goes down at a proper Maritime kitchen party.
Happy cooking, and happy sewing!
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