Grandma White's Apron {A Sew-Along}

.

Hello Farmgirl Friends!!!

.

I’m very (VERY) late on this blog post!!  I’m not going to give you all the crazy excuses but I will tell you this one:  I went out west to spend some time with my mom and I brought her home with me for the winter again this year.  Which is wonderful and awesome and perfect.  But it’s also thrown me way off my routine and I’ve hardly even been capable of meeting the deadlines on my calendar this month!  Smile!

.But I think the saying “better late than never” really does apply to my blog post today!  It’s a fun one and I’m excited to get started!  A little history first:

.

.

In the early 1900’s my great grandmother, “Grandma White”, designed an apron pattern that she made many aprons with.  My mother kept one of the very old and tattered aprons and drew up a pattern from it.  Through the years my momma has made many of these aprons for so many of us; even her little grand-girls and now her great-grand girls.  Its such a fun apron pattern that is all about using patchwork size pieces of fabric that would’ve been left over from something else, or likely in Grandma White’s day it would’ve been scraps cut from an old shirt or a feed sack.

.

.

Mom and I would love make Grandma White’s apron with you!  This is what you call a Sew-Along.  Have you ever done one before?  It’s such a great way to work through a project in a slow and easy way along with someone else… even if that someone else is on the other end of this blog post!  The plan goes like this:  we will get started on the basics this month. In my blog post the next couple of months, we will finish it up!

.

.

Our first step is very simple.  All you need to do is gather some fabric together.  This project works great with scraps at least 5 inches square.  The pattern is written in a fun way that calls for nine different prints.  Go ahead and dig through your scraps and cut the following:

.

• Print #1:  cut three 4.5 inch squares
• Print #2:  cut four 4.5 inch squares
• Print #3:  cut five 4.5 inch squares
• Print #4:  cut six 4.5 inch squares
• Print #5:  cut seven 4.5 inch squares
• Print #6:  cut six 4.5 inch squares
• Print #7:  cut five 4.5 inch squares
• Print #8:  cut four 4.5 inch squares
• Print #9:  cut one 4.5 inch square

.

.

I would recommend labeling your prints so that when we begin to sew them together in a couple weeks, you don’t have to remind yourself what goes where!

.

And that is all you need to do for now!  Set your darling little squares aside until next blog post!  The good news is that since I’m so late on this post my next blog post is only a couple weeks away! Smile! 

.

.

I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful.  I was just so happy to have my Momma with us for the holiday this year.  We drove down the hill to my daughter and son-in-law’s home for the day and it was so perfect.  Above is the picture of us four generations of girls!

.

Until our gravel roads cross again… so long!

.

Dori