So a couple of months ago I was at Joann's and I came across this beauty in the remnants bin.
It was so fun and colorful that I couldn't resist and purchased it right away....and then it sat with my other fabric while I tried to figure out the prefect use for it. Whatever I did with it I decided I wanted to enhance the design by embellishing it with embroidery.
Well, yesterday I decided to stop putting it off and decided to make an apron out of it. I personally have TONS of aprons that I've made over the years that never get used because, honestly, I just don't wear an apron when I cook. So I decided that this apron would end up either: a. as a craft apron for myself, b. as a gift for my sister Jen, or maybe even c. as a gift for an unsuspecting friend...
The apron is fairly simple. I made a 1/2 apron that ties around the waist and has 2 large pouch pockets on the front. To make it a little more substantial I made it double thick with plain black cotton on the back side and in the pockets....
And about that embroidery I decided would be needed? I started by embellishing the flowers on the hat of one of the skeletons and a simple filler stitch in white over the skeletons face.
I'm in no way done with this project! I plan on embellishing many more of the faces and maybe do a chain stitch around the edges of the pockets, and maybe add a phrase in colorful stitches along the outer edge. For now though I folded it up neatly and put the embroidery thread colors I chose for it in one of the large pockets with my booklet on embroidery stitches. It looked so good folded up there that I couldn't resist taking one last picture of it. Here it is!
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