"A portrait of my son, once a week, every week, in 2014."
William, my little baker boy. Every day at the moment we do some baking. He just loves it. His favourite part is pouring the flour into the mixing bowl. I think the next favourite thing is the egg going in, he loves anything to do with eggs (and chickens). And the next favourite bit is having a little taste of the baking before it gets baked, which sometimes turns into a big taste if mama isn't watching closely.
I still haven't had time to make us our baking aprons. Do you know of any good simple patterns out there?
Linking up with Jodi's 52 Project.
so nice to see kids finding joy in helping and learning about food.
ReplyDeleteEasy apron take a rectangle of fabric, even a teatowel for a small size, fold in half langthwise, so it is tall and skinny then find a plate to trace a curve for the part from the top of the bib to the waist....remembering to include seam allowances. Just move the curve until it looks the way you want.
You can then add a "rod pocket" type piece at the back of the curve or you can make it double sided ( much easier and more practical) and sew a curved line of stitching from the waist to the top of the bib.
Now comes the amazing part.....you take a looong tape, ribbon or homemade tie and thread it through the left waist opening , out the left top bib opening, back into the right top bib opening and out of the right waist opening. Now the apron is fully adjustable as to position of the bib height and the waist size and will fit anyone, short, tall, fat, thin and the childs version will grow with them for quite a few years.
Let me know if you can't get your head around all this and I will email and then send a pic to you.
Sorry for not being more easy to understand, but I don't know your sewing skills or experience...you double the fabric, so the curves are cut at the same time and are both the same, not to make a double sided apron or a super skinny one.... lol
DeleteThanks Margaret, got it! My sewing level is basic and nothing fancy, but I'm with you on the apron. I'm as far along as cutting out the rectangle so far. Double sided is a great idea. And the ribbon part is perfect, no fussing around (that's my kind of sewing). Thank you :)
DeleteSorry - I know nothing about sewing. However I do know that you have a very bright little boy. Fancy being involved at baking so early. I' definitely team William! cheers Wendy
ReplyDeleteHe loves the baking so much. It suits me, means there is always something yummy to eat!
DeleteThe best little kids aprons I got was from our crafty stall at school last year. They were so simple but explaining it in this comment might be more difficult since I can't show you. The apron was made using one tea towel and a length of let's call it ribbon but it's not ribbon but something you would buy in the dress making section. Image the tea towel on the table as a rectangle and putting it vertically on the table flat. Ie the longest length at the sides and the shortest at the bottom and top. Then fold down the top two corners facing in so they look like triangles and sew a seam wider than the ribbon. Once the seam is sewn then you can cut off the excess of what's left of the folded down triangle. Lost? Then you thread the long ribbon through both these seams and you have your apron. It's so hard to explain but it is a really simple method. Not sure if that is going to help you or not but basically the tea towel had two sewing lines. One cut and thread and you are done. Regards Kathy A, Brisbane
ReplyDeleteI get it! That's a great explanation, thank you. I have no more excuses..
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