Aprons: Some Free Vintage Patterns

From The Sew Weekly, this week's theme is aprons.

As hard as it is to believe, there was once a time when women cooked in clothes that they didn't want to get dirty! Yes! It's true! And then the 1960s happened, clothing got a whole lot cheaper to make and buy and the idea of *not* wearing your party dress while you made some sort of gelatinous dish was born. While wearing an apron today has become more of a kitchy nod to the past, there has certainly been a resurgance of aprons as textile art.

Although I am not in that perfect age group to wear aprons, I still do it.

And IMHO, the perfect age group is either young (ages 4 to 29) or old (just a bit older than I!). 

Last week, I wore this apron to painting group, and got a funny look from a guy in an even older age group.  It probably is not attractive from the back view, if ya know what I mean, but it is very cute from the front:

pocket with embroidery, watercolor and crayon embellishment

A big lot of vintage FREE patterns for aprons can be accessed here.  Now go make one!

A Knitted Gift: Top Down V-Neck Sweater

Finished after several attempts, Heidi's Simple Summer Sweater:

The yarn is 75% cotton and 25% acrylic, so it should be a comfortable summer sweater for cool evenings.

The steep learning curve is detailed on this post.

Details are here if you are an interested knitter.

Hope you like it, Charlotte!

Angry Birds...err...Petulant Birds?

Almost finished:

And with a little more attitude:

Oil, 11" x 14"



Now working on two large panels on wrapped canvas of similar petulant birds for home display.