It All Started with a Frying Pan

It all started with a frying pan.  I came home from work and went straight to the stove to make dinner.  I was frying something – which is rare as we don’t often eat fried food.  It was only AFTER some of the oil splashed on a silk blouse I was wearing, that I realized I needed an apron.  Despite hand washing, then a trip to the dry cleaner’s, I never did get that oil out of the blouse.  I NEEDED an apron.

Miss Lynch Apron

I went to the internet and found dozens of apron tutorials and soon was madly sewing each newly discovered pattern.  Though the easiest ones are half aprons, they don’t really cover the chest area where the oil splashed me – defeating my purpose for wearing one.   

My first apron was made of vintage blue fabric reminding Paul of our days as Junior High students when Miss Lynch and a couple of other elderly teachers had seemingly endless wardrobes of blue floral dresses.  It was described as an apron to be used while bathing a baby and meant to be sewn of flannel and bound with bias tape.  I used cotton and just hemmed the edges except for the neckline.  I discovered it was a little wide for my shoulders so adjusted it a little before finishing it. The back is gathered and the ties wrap around twice before tying in front.   Mothers-Baby-Apron pattern