On Tuesday morning of VBS week, I had no idea what I was going to do for myself for superhero night (we had the kids covered–see my summary post for VBS this year). I almost gave up, but during breakfast, I had a flash of inspiration: I could make myself a superhero apron! I served on the snacks team, so an apron was definitely appropriate– and since I love aprons anyway, the work I put into it wouldn’t go to waste! I wear aprons all the time in the kitchen (you would think I would have more by now…).
The kids and I hung out in the craft room almost all day! I was sewing like a crazy woman, taking these final scraps of comic book print cotton and blue solid cotton to embellish the striped upholstery-weight apron base (thank you, S, for the upholstery fabric!).
I used the basic shape of an apron I already own and love. It was purchased for me by Husband at the beginning of my love affair with aprons, and I’d long ago traced it to make another one for a friend. So I pulled out that pattern, lengthened it and left off the original bias ruffle. Instead, I ruffled as many strips as I could eke out of my scraps of comic and blue cotton and went to town!
I’ve determined over the years that pockets are an absolute necessity on my aprons. I sometimes need to check out at the end of the day, whether it’s during dinner preparation or doing dishes, and I listen to podcasts with headphones to my phone. You can be sure that these apron pockets securely hold that phone!
In the above photo, you might notice that the top edge of the comic book ruffle at the hem of the apron is just finished by a serged overlock. That is for two reasons: 1) I literally got this apron to a wearable state minutes before we needed to leave for the church!** and 2) I ran out of blue cotton. I wanted to make a little binding strip to cover that edge (like at the top of the pockets and the top of the apron itself), but I have no more blue. I’m just going to leave it the way it is.
**I was glad for many reasons that I finished the apron in time for Tuesday evening’s VBS– the next day, the contractors started demolition on our upstairs hall bathroom, and the plumbing replacement we did required a hole to be cut in my craft room ceiling first thing Thursday morning!
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