Apron Order of Operations

I need to write down my apron pattern steps and not assume that I will be able to remember the order. On the first one, I forgot to put the pocket on before I sewed the front and back together. I added it afterward, but I like it better when the pocket stitching does not show on the reverse side.

On the second one, I forgot that I have to bind the top of both apron pieces together. And that, boys and girls, is why we have seam rippers.

By the sixth one, I might know what I am doing. Oh well, they are aprons and not heirloom sewing.

This is the second apron:

The fabric is a Lori Holt home dec canvas that I bought at the small quilt store in Spokane. I had enough that I was able to indulge my OCD tendencies and match the pattern on the pocket perfectly to the pattern on the front. And for this one, I did make bias binding. The difference is subtle, but I’ll do it that way from now on. Making bias binding is a matter of folding an 18” by width of fabric piece on the bias and cutting it with my Accuquilt strip cutter. Easy-peasy.

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We got rain yesterday, as anticipated. I am glad I got the peas and collard greens planted on Tuesday. And I was able to get some grass seed spread on a few bare spots in the front yard yesterday afternoon before the deluge started.

Mother Nature is dogging us all the way to this plant sale. The forecast low for the next several nights is close to freezing. We’ve never kept the heaters going this late into the season.

This weather has caused a peculiar sort of disorientation—the calendar says it is May, but I have gotten used to calibrating my schedule by the seasons, so part of me thinks it’s still March or April, because this is the kind of weather we have in March and April. Every so often, I realize that we’re actually two months further into the year and it makes me a bit dizzy.

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I picked up the Renee pants pattern at the quilt store yesterday. I need to make a muslin—test version—of the pattern, but I’d rather not use $20 a yard ponte for that because the pants require two yards. I remembered that Joanns had some hot pink ponte in the clearance bin, so I stopped in and got it for $5 a yard. With my luck, the pants will fit perfectly and then I’ll have to find some place to wear hot pink pants, LOL.