And another apron . . .

You know  how much I love Auntie Day . . . Anna and I do spend as much time together as our schedules allow . . . and she wanted to make her Mom an apron for Christmas this year.  We managed to get the fabric shopping done (only $1.00 over her budget) but it took some doing.

Schedule on . . . Anna is picked up . . . and we're off to my favourite fabric store.  She has an idea in mind (warm/earth colours) and we pick up what we think are the three best pieces and get to the cutting table.  We get the BEST sales person E V E R and she says . . . you know the other cottons are only $5.00 a metre right now . . . and we both look at one another and say . . . "ya we should go back and look at them" and giggle . . . and we get three OTHER pieces that we think are WAY better than the first choices and the bill comes to $11.00 - YIPPEE

Now to schedule a day to sew . . . what pattern to pick . . . what piece to make what colour and it's cut and ready for my best friend ( Bertha ) . . . now you might think setting a 12 year old down at a conventional sewing machine that has a LOT of power a dumb idea but she did fantastic! I would start a piece off and she'd finish it . . . then I'd do the difficult "turns" and she'd do all of the ironing (with a steam iron) . . . NOTE:  We set the ironing board to her height and she did a fantastic job . . . I only had to show her once what to do and she DID IT!

Here she is ironing!

All of the pictures I took of her sewing you can't see her . . . but I promise you she did MOST of the sewing - I just did the curvy parts!

Here is the finished product!



That's the third apron this year and one more on the way but that one is a bit of a surprise and a bit outside the box - I'll show you that one when it's done!