new book + new apron

My new favourite craft book is A Is for Apron, which I found at B&N a few weeks ago. My mother collects aprons, so as soon as I saw this on the shelf, I knew it was coming home with me. This really is a great book--wonderful patterns and lovely fabrics in the photos. Really, it's an inspiring book.


This is the Deep Pockets apron, which I decided to try the other day. It was a quick make, though I spent far too long dealing with the bias tape. Woe, bias tape, you're so useful and so evil all at the same time. I plan to make several more aprons, so hopefully the narrow bias tape will be less of a problem each time.

A full shot of the apron, on a vintage quilt. The pink bias tape looks neon bright, but that's mainly the camera's fault. There's some pink in the pocket fabric, and in person, the colors all work much better together.

All in all, great book, yay! I think my only issue with it is that the pattern pieces have to be enlarged, and since there's only one measurement on each one, I can't sit down and recreate it based on provided measurements like I can some of my goth-loli pattens from Japanese magazines. I copied some of the pages and took them to Staples though, and they were able to easily enlarge the patterns to full size, for a decent price. And really, it is easier to just cut that out instead of making sure I'm measuring everything right.