Five Aprons!

A month or so ago, one of my older granddaughters requested that I make her an apron. Well, you know how that goes, I can't make one apron, what about her sisters?

So last week I made 5 aprons!  I used a pattern I had on hand called Crossback Reversable Aprons from Indygo Junction designed by Amy Barickman. I'm fussy about my aprons, I don't like ties, I don't like tight aprons and I really dislike ruffles. I am so not a ruffle person!

I don't remember where I purchased this pattern, I asked at Calico Point and they said it didn't come from there. I know I bought it at a store and not online. 

There are multiple sizes in this pattern. The child's pattern is printed on it's own tissue paper. The adult sizes were a different tissue paper with 3 sizes. Kathi suggested that I use parchment paper to trace off for different sizes which I did. Thanks Kathi, that was a brilliant idea!

I ended making making 5 aprons, 4 for the granddaughters and 1 for their mother. Here they are!

Two of the girls are blue lovers, be still my heart! One of these granddaughters will be receiving Lady Jane someday. Don't worry, I have plenty of blue quilts around here to make them both happy.

The fabrics for these aprons came from JoAnn Fabrics and all of them were on sale, gotta love a sale!

The purple apron is for our DIL, the blue one is for the youngest granddaughter.

Here is the back view. They don't look full enough hanging on hangers but they do, I've tried them all on except the little blue one.

After sewing the first several aprons, I made a pocket alteration, I curved the bottom corners. If you look at the blue apron above, you can see the corners are pointed while her mother's pockets are curved. Curved pockets are easier to sew than pointy pockets.

Another change I made was to sew the pockets on the apron lower than the pattern called for. Lower pockets felt more natural to me.

This blue apron is for our oldest granddaughter, her sister likes teal but I couldn't find teal fabric that I really liked. Hopefully she'll be happy with these green fabrics. Blogger decided I wanted to show the back sides of these aprons first.

And here is the front view.

This last apron is for the granddaughter who originally requested the apron. She's a purple girl like her mother. Again Blogger decided you wanted to see the back side first.

Supposedly these aprons are supposed to be reversible. I hand sewed the top seam by hand, I didn't do the best job. These aprons are definitely not reversible.

All of the aprons were top stitched with a contrasting thread, I even stitched a pretty design!

I could use a new apron also but after making 5 of them, I was aproned out and wanted to get back to piecing quilts again. Maybe sometime this winter I'll make myself one. I plan to mail these aprons this week.

Linking to Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle & Thread Thursday, Put Your Foot Down, Patchwork & Quilts