A40-4599, The 1940's One-Yard Apron, my new kitchen love!

A little show-and-tell here as I wrapped up my apron in time for Holiday cooking. This apron was originally from a mail-order pattern and is cut from one yard of 44"/45" fabric, meaning the fabric lay on the bias across the apron (and that any fabric print you are using, will appear upside-down at the top back of the apron). For it, I chose a quilting print of vintage kitchen items and vignettes. The edges of the apron are all bound with contrasting bias fold tape. I only placed one pocket matching it upon the print (at lower left on apron, with top edge bound in red). I used vintage black plastic buttons, but I placed them using cream thread to maintain the overall graphic quality of the apron.

On the Boards for Winter, 2015. Off to another great pattern year!

The Pictorial Review evening gown with diagonal seams is now ready in multiple sizes, bust 32-1/2" to 46-1/2". Note the half-size nature in sizes implies what we now refer to as petite. Before ordering, please pay attention to the fact that the dress back length is much shorter than for regular sizes and you will have to invest work in lengthening the pattern to suit you:


Following in early spring is McCall's 4425, the side-tie dress for day or evening:

If you are on Pinterest, you can see what I have proposed for the boards all this year. There are a couple tentative projects, but I will announce updates each quarter as to coming patterns.

If you have been tuning in to my Make it with Wool project, this year, I added a small addendum to the final post as I had forgotten to include details of the coat back lacing detail: