Show Us Your Aprons!

[lareine]

I'm in love with this apron! You made it? Do you remember what pattern it is? I want to make one as my first sewing project with a machine!

I'd like to know too! It looks so sweet, although I'm sure the lovely fabric choices have as much to do with that as the pattern itself
Aha! I was browsing for something else and found the details here.

I made my first apron today (well, first since I was a teenager, a loooong time ago). I used a 1952 Vogue re-issue. For some reason it makes me want to knead bread lol

 

[HepKitty]

I'd like to know too! It looks so sweet, although I'm sure the lovely fabric choices have as much to do with that as the pattern itself
Aha! I was browsing for something else and found the details here.

I made my first apron today (well, first since I was a teenager, a loooong time ago). I used a 1952 Vogue re-issue. For some reason it makes me want to knead bread lol

we would love to see pictures when you have them

 

[Miss Moonlight]

So many lovely aprons! I don't have a pic of the one I want to mention, but I'm hoping I can get a little piece of advice from the ladies perusing the thread. I hope this is okay to post here, I did a search and found no one thread for such a matter.

I have a 'Charming Hostess' brand sheer white organza apron from the early 50s. Because I've had my things in storage for a long time, it's so, so wrinkled. Now I hope to sell it to a little vintage store around the corner, and I need to smooth it out. But knowing nothing about sheer organza... can I simply iron it? On low, perhaps with a piece of clean muslin between the iron and organza?

I'm a little afraid I'm going to hurt it. Input very appreciated.

 

[Lady Cecilia]

Here's my apron, not vintage, just home-improvised. I need to add pockets at some point, keep forgetting...

I have a 'Charming Hostess' brand sheer white organza apron from the early 50s. Because I've had my things in storage for a long time, it's so, so wrinkled. Now I hope to sell it to a little vintage store around the corner, and I need to smooth it out. But knowing nothing about sheer organza... can I simply iron it? On low, perhaps with a piece of clean muslin between the iron and organza?

I would put a pressing cloth in between the organza and the iron, perhaps sprinkle the cloth with some water and iron at the lowest setting. Then again, I'm no expert. Maybe you could ask the person who runs the vintage store? They've probably come across something like it before. Alternatively you could go to a dry cleaner's who have experience with vintage garments and ask them for advice. Good luck with it!

 

[Miss Moonlight]

Here's my apron, not vintage, just home-improvised. I need to add pockets at some point, keep forgetting...

That's adorable! Pockets will only add to its loveliness.

And thank you for the advice!

 

[Heather]

Apron lovers!

Okay ladies...for those of you out there who collect aprons, how do you store them? I currently have mine shoved in a kitchen drawer, which doesn't seem right. lol I'd like to keep them somewhere for easy access and I was wondering what women used to do with theirs when they weren't using them. Or any clever ways you ladies have to suggest!

 

[Miss sofia]

I have a few nice aprons, which are relegated to drawers too, which annoys me. The two i am using at the moment, i have a hook for on my kitchen door, so i can admire them in all their barkcloth glory! I also have one hung up in my utility room, so i can pop it on when i go outside to garden. I think have as many hooks as possible to hang them off as many walls and doors could be the answer!

My girlfriend who has an enormous kitchen with very high ceilings, has her half aprons strung like bunting. It looks great. It wouldnt work in my shoe-box sized kitchen.

 

[TheNightingale]

I've quite a few aprons, in part because people are buying them for me a lot (darn). I actually rotate them according to season so that drawer in the kitchen isn't so overstuffed! The off-season aprons go into my great-grandfather's old steamer trunk, which is in our master bedroom. The one I'm using today is usually draped over the oven handle when it's not on.

When I think about it, that is how my grandmother & great-grandmother did things, too. The nice hostess-style aprons were on hangers in the closet.

 

[MissLaurieMarie]

I have four aprons - a vintage half given to me from my boyfriend's aunt, a modern one my mom gave me, a modern one I use for all my cooking/cleaning and a fancy one made by the same aunt.
I only wear the one because the others are two pretty! I have a shelf with three hooks in my front-entry way right beside the kitchen doorway - I hang them there, but I'd love to display them better. I need to throw a dinner party to show them off *hmm*

 

[LizzieMaine]

Mine are hanging on a hook on the pantry doorway -- right at hand height, so when I need one I can grab one without rummaging around.

 

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I have mine on hooks on the wall right next to the sink for easy reach

I can't imagine cooking without an apron on. I'm a messy cook

 

[Caroline H]

Some friends made me a new apron for Christmas! I'm not sure if it will really show in the picture, but it has a string of pearls attached to the ties around the neck so that you can make sure you have your pearls on even when cooking!

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[rue]

That's really cute Caroline!

My daughter bought me one for Christmas. I'll have to remember to post it

 

[MissNathalieVintage]

I recently got my first long pinny and I adore it. Its pink and I feel like a princess when I wear it. I can't wait to use my crocheted hostess aprons some day. I keep my aprons hanging on the 3M comand hooks on my kitchen wall.

 

[lareine]

Caroline, I love the idea of sewing pearls right in to the apron ties! No excuse for lack of glamour round the kitchen

 

[wahine]

What a wonderful thread!
I've been wearing aprons for a long time and have some vintage ones, too. The older ones, I have from my grandma's cupboard but they're all much used=stained. I was successful cleaning one of them but the other stains are forever as it seems. Even chlorine didn't do the job.