I felt really guilty about sewing so much lately and, well, not sewing so much for my own kids. Like, reaaaaaallly guilty. Hello, my beautiful daughter is pretty much one of the main reasons I DO sew. Putting handmade clothes, made by my own loving hands, on my kids is 1000x better than clothes from any store. It is a serious sewing-crack high, I'm tellin' ya.
DD has noticed me up in my sewing room (duh!) these past few weeks and taken to spreading out all of the patterns and magazines I have for HER stuff, just sort of hoping that I'd take the hint. "Mommy, is that one for me...?" Poor thing.
And so I finally took pity on her and made HER a custom-drafted mini-version of the adult aprons that I've been working on.
Fabric: Lil' Kingdom by Michael Miller. This fabric is TO DIE for. I always buy the good stuff when it comes to quilting cottons, but this particular line is just a cut above. It's thick and soft and crisp, and the colors really pop. It's just beautiful.
Pattern: Drafted by me.
She LOVED her apron. I even convinced her to wear jeans with it. (She usually refuses to wear any kind of pants, insisting that she can't, "sit criss cross apple sauce," when wearing them. Child has a boo-tay.)
Okay, fine. I had to bribe her with chocolate AND the apron in order to get her to wear the jeans. Sheesh.
Beautiful top stitched crisp apron-ness. :)
I really wanted to make sure this apron was appropriately child-like, yet still a scaled down version of my rather sexy adult aprons. I think I succeeded?? I have mad requests from friends and family who want copies of it...luckily I did have enough fabric to make several more. I put one up in my Etsy shop, which is now live!Yeah, the Etsy shop is live. Like, I dunno. Ooooooh, this selling thing is wigging me out! I have no idea what I'm doing; I am SO not a businessy person at this point. I am sure I must be doing everything completely wrong. And how silly am I to add this onto all the other holiday/traveling stuff I do this time of year??! Nuts. Srsly. Ah well, visit my shop if you feel like it. If not, that's okay, too. :/
(Best marketing line. Ever!)
