Something a little retro

My first project. An apron.
I'll learn how to hem, gather, read a pattern, sew straight lines, or curved which was the case.

So mom took me to fabric land, humouring my newest adventure.  See i sometimes have started projects in the past and don't finish them. She has however become my crafting buddy at Christmas time and helped me get through all of my glass block projects. Yay mom!

So as I said, she humoured me and took me to Fabric land where i picked up a few apron patterns, and different styles of material. How cute is this apron pattern? I'm totally wanting to make them all! simply gorgeous!

Here i'm sewing on biased tape, i'm doing it in a 2 step process.

unroll the bias tape, sew. Re-roll the biased tape and sew a second time to give it a perfect hemline.

I also learned, that i hate having my pins on the left hand side as i'm sewing. 

Not so much fun, but as my mom says, you learn as you go!

Here I'm hemming the ties that fashion the bow at the back. how perfect is that hemline?

gotta love having the iron handy to press as you go!

Here is mom modelling for me so I can snap a few photo's of the finished apron.

while i love the look of the apron, the finished product wasn't exactly what I wanted. So i will tweak the pattern a little bit and try again. I was hoping for a little more bounce and body with it. I added some craft netting underneath the top two layers, but it just didn't give it that ooomph that i wanted it to have. 

It still is adorably sweet!