Description
Sew this simple kid's apron with free how to sewing instructions. Make one for each holiday by simply using fabric with a holiday print.
Materials and Supplies
Craft Supplies:
- Sewing Machine
- Thread
- Fabric*
- Iron
- Sewing gauge (helpful)
*4 yards makes 12 aprons - if only making one you will need 2 yards
Craft Instructions
- Cut one piece of fabric 14 1/2" long x 20" wide for the skirt and cut one piece 60" x 3 3/4" for the tie.
- Make a narrow hem on all four side of the 60" x 3 3/4" fabric. An easy way to do this is to use your sewing gauge to mark 5/8" then press in place with your iron. Go back and turn the raw edge to the inside meeting the fold you already pressed and press this in place.
- Fold each end into a triangle, press and topstitch all the way around the tie. Place the tie aside for now.
- Narrow hem the two 14 1/2" sides of your other piece of fabric as you did for the tie. This is the skirt of the apron.
- Hem the bottom of the skirt section 1 1/4" **
- Run a gathering stitch across the top of the skirt at 1/4" and 1/8" from the edge.
- Gently gather the fabric until the top edge measures approximately 12". Find and mark the center.
- Find and mark the center of the tie.
- Line up the center of the skirt and the center of the tie.
- Fold the tie n half lengthwise and place it over the gathered edge of the skirt. Pin in place.
- Stitch across the edge of the tie only in the section where the skirt is.**
**If your sewing machine has decorative stitching, this is a good place to use it.