No, this has not turned into a food blog – it could, but it
hasn’t. This is all about an apron. My son’s Christmas present, to be exact. Christmas-present-making time was coming up,
and this pattern came up on my radar because of a class that was being taught
at the store. The pattern being used was
by Harebrained Happenings.
They have the
cutest applique patterns for, among other things, aprons. For aprons there are a possible 4 choices of
picture. An apron – the perfect present
for a chef. But I could not decide on
which picture, so instead of this all being a great secret until the mailman
arrived, I e-mailed son-chef with a link to the patterns and had him chose. I was leaning towards the Hamburger myself,
but I did want to be sure (that’s a
lot of work to put in, and if it’s not quite right, you know …), and, as is
often the case – we think alike. So
Hamburger was on the menu. Sewing an
apron is no great feat, but choosing fabrics for an applique picture – good
heavens – it takes forever! For
starters, the pig has to be the right colour.
Then you need the bun to be the right colour, and it has to look good
next to the pig. And then the red has to
be just so, the green …. You get the
picture. At some point you just have to
make decisions and go with it. (This is
so, so much worse that picking fabrics for an outfit!!) There was lots of tracing of fiddly stuff,
cutting of fiddly stuff. Most of all
(for some bizarre reason) I was dreading the blanket stitching around every
single little applique piece. And that
certainly takes a whole lot less time on the machine than it does by hand, so I
have no idea why I was even worrying my brain about it. I toyed with the idea of doing machine
embroidery for “Ham burger” under the picture, but that would have required
bringing the apron in to the store, spending some amount of time at figuring it
all out, etc., etc. In the end, I
decided to just embroider the word by hand, and I’m quite sure that the amount
of time spent was much, much less than it would have taken me by machine.
I did alter the actual apron pattern a
little. I found it a bit wide at the top
in the larger size, so I narrowed it.
And the pockets got stitched down after all the layers were together
(this apron has a lining). (Made more
sense to me - to keep things from flapping around when that apron goes into the
wash.) I have been promised a picture of
“apron being worn”, but at this point, I’m not holding my breath. I do receive random pictures of new bikes, trucks,
food on plates, food in ovens, but for some reason the face that I do want to
see in those pictures is rarely there.
