Why You should wear Aprons ☞ Aesthetic & Practical Reasons + Quick, Easy (& Lazy) Sewing Tutorial
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2021
- So... Why do most European Folk Costumes feature an Apron? Allow me to list all sorts of aesthetic and practical reasons behind this popular piece of clothing. And just in case you have a need to fulfill your cottagecore dreams, or make hasty progress with your everyday chores, I included a tutorial of the quickest and simplest way I know how to make an apron!
Yes, I took plenty of shortcuts on the tutorial: a great many things could have been measured, pinned or basted, but this simple apron is only supposed to be a casual 30 min project you can fix up in an afternoon ❧
❤ If you were wondering... I'm happily wearing my new apron now ❤
Here's a list of all the folk verses sung in this video:
"Szakácsasszony, ejnye, ejnye-bejnye,
De szennyes a kötője eleje!
Mossa ki a kötője elejét,
Úgy várja a megtisztelt vendégit!"
Folk song from Szatmár area
"Kertünk alatt faragnak az ácsok,
Idehallik a kopácsolásuk,
Eredj, lyányom, kérdezd meg az ácsot,
Ád-e csókért egy kötény forgácsot?
Édesanyám, huncutok az ácsok!
Drágán mérik a kötény forgácsot!
Kilenc csókot adtam neki érte,
A tizediket ráadásul kérte!"
Folk Song from Tenke, as sung by my Grandfather
Songs often appear in other - nearby or sometimes faraway - villages and areas too, with some differences in lyrics or tune.
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It is not just you, don't worry. My 85 years old grandmother is a fantastic professional dressmaker and she told me : "Don't worry, I have sewn hundreds of zippers in my life and I still hate them" 😅
My mother was the seamstress. The whole dress no sweat, I can't even count how many wedding dresses that she's made. The one thing, she dreaded every time. The zipper. They can be so finicky. My mother could repair leather, she was excellent at recovering furniture. Oh the dresses she made for me for my concerts. Unbelievable beautiful. Beautiful wedding dresses prom dresses. And like I said every time the zipper...
My grandfather was a saddler and had no problem with zippers. My nana, a seamstress, avoided them when possible.😆
So it’s not just me 😂
Pro tip: if you tie knots in the two bottom corners, you can tuck them into your waistband and have a pocket that you don’t have to hold!
I remember a time (probably 20 years ago now) when a friend reached into one side of her apron ‘pocket’ and pulled out a baby goat, and then the other side made a noise so she replaced the goat and pulled out her own newborn baby from the other side!
😳😳 she fit two babies in an apron? Mind blown!
Your friend didn't kid around!
Why i find carrying babies in pockets so funny
@@GreenMonkeyToaster I see what you did there, and that is an awesome joke haha
Wow you're friend is cool
Yes please make a video about Hungarian folk dress and traditional embroidery.
Yes, please. Very interested
Yes! Especially traditional embroidery!
Absolutely!
Yeeeeeesssss! My mom’s family is from the Burgenland. I would love to see someone modern talk about folk dress in that region, or nearby, and how it was done, and is done today.
Oh my gosh, I love that embroidery style. I've been trying to copy it for YEARS.
YES, _PLEASE_ DO THIS.
Hi, my great grandmother wore two aprons and when she had a nap she flipped the shorter one over her head and rolled the longer one up to keep her hands warm.
iconic behaviour !!!!!
That is most interesting.
That is next-level napping. I might start wearing them solely for this purpose!
brilliant
How cute!
I love that aprons are having a come back. My Grandmother's wore them daily. But my mother's generation gave them up. I have started wearing them a lot the last few years. I am 61 years old.
Same here. My mom distinctly disliked aprons so I never understood why people wore them . Duh... now I do. Weird about the most obvious things that sometimes escapes us.
I still have, and never stopped using, my mom's Kliban cat apron from the 1970s. It's been hanging in and being used in kitchens for 50 years now!
I'm just talking about this the other day. I asked my mother what was the burn your bra type or the apron type. After that conversation and she proclaimed she was a burn your bra type. No joke when I left my home I immediately collected aprons. I've been wearing them ever since, I was 18. and if I'm doing anything in my home besides just sitting relaxing I have on an apron. Always.
I started to wear a denim bib type of apron a few years ago and now I feel undressed without one on.
I just posted that for some reason, people don’t seem to use them anymore🤷♀️. I mean, they protect your clothes at the very least. I actually just bought my daughter an apron for Christmas just this last year. I went to help her to cook her first thanksgiving dinner, and I asked for an apron. She didn’t have one. I’m 60. Thinking on it, Susan, my mother didn’t use one either🤔
I've been using my long skirts to do the things aprons used to do. Now that i'm starting to make my own clothes (still looking pretty medieval since i'm only just starting out and simple shapes are easier than closer fitting clothes), an apron would be very helpful.
I worry what my coworkers will think of me when we all have to stop working from home and they'll see me in basically medieval european clothes with my hair up in ribbons daily because i suddenly hate modern clothing being so stifling and 5 minutes with a ribbon gives me a good hairstyle that i won't fiddle with through the day.
There are definitely worse “lockdown fashions” to take with you into “normal” life.
If you've ever worn a kitchen... You're Baba Yaga 😆
This is hilarious 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
probably one of the most important uses of an apron is being able to cover your hands while reaching for hot pots and such!
Bless you. I've lived on this earth 28 years and never thought to do this before. I've been out here depending on flimsy oven mitts
Hmmm. Rolling in at 43, always worn one. Never used as an oven mitt.😂
Two or three weeks ago, as I was once again taking 50 year old books out of our library shelves for revision I thought to myself "aprons need to come back into fashion" as my black clothing got completely covered in dust.
🤤
Booooks 💙💚💙
Yeah I was baking and got covered it flour
@@rd6203 How I miss them!😄. (I do still go to the library 😱, and buy them), but I admit that e books are 85% of my book purchases now. It’s so much easier to store them and take them places lol. We’d go somewhere for a week, and my luggage was so heavy!
When you sing in Hungarian, it reminds me of my Gede singing in Slovakian and makes me tear up...thank you, it brings back so many good memories.
If I am home and awake, I'm wearing an apron. I like the cross back "japanese style". I wear them because life is messy and I wear my pretty clothes every day. When out and about I wear aprons about half of the time. Sometimes the cross back style and sometimes the ties at the waist kind like you showed. I wear them for the big pockets(I refuse to carry a purse), to nip in the waist of an outfit, to carry things, to stay clean and because they are pretty. I have my good aprons and my messy ones. They are all floral and colorful with big pockets.
do you have a recommended way of making a cross-back apron?
@@ozok17 there are a lot of sewing patterns out there if you search. Lots of cross back aprons for sale on Etsy. I buy mine from AprilCornell.com, their "craft aprons". They have pretty patterns and go on sale regularly.
@@RainyDayBricks I get aprons from señor frog's an modify them to be cross back, they're so comfortable and useful.
@@ozok17 The Maria apron from Maven Patterns is gorgeous. I made one in plain taupe linen.
I wear mine all the time, too, while I’m working around the house. I use the “smock” type. Big ol’ pockets to stash as I go along, protect my clothing. I actually have a couple of patterns for them, but I haven’t made any yet. Mines from simplicity, and a beginner could make them. All I would recommend is that you make it from a nice sturdy fabric!🙃
I've made myself an apron for sewing because I can't be bothered with picking all the lint off my clothes at the end of the day! It was also an excuse to practice cartidge pleats ;) I love it because it thas the most wonerfully adorable and hashtag cottage core print of flower shops and flower arrangements.
Oh! TIL what cartridge pleats are. Thank you!
I just finished working on an especially linty sewing project and I wish I had thought of this! Except I need to make myself a new apron that fits over my growing baby belly
Absolute genius! I wear one in the kitchen but never thought to wear one while sewing.
My grandmother would flap the loose part of her apron at her face as a quick "fan" on hot days. If she perspired, the apron hem was her towel. As you mentioned, it was a perfect way to gather eggs from her hen house. Her aprons included large patch pockets in case she wanted to carry her pruning shears, garden trowel, etc. I don't wear aprons, but I did make a Bavarian style square dance dress with a decorative apron.
If you add a drawstring at the bottom edge you will be able to tie it up to the waist ties making the "pocket" hands free 😊 this is some times referred to as a harvest apron, and will be among the first projects I do when I get a sewing machine 😃
Have never heard of a harvest apron before, I need one!
That song about the wood shavings was a real bop.
This past spring I decided to begin incorporating dirndls into my everyday wardrobe around the farm. One day in the fall, as I was chatting with a friend, my 2 year old plonked himself down in the potato patch and began eating dirt as fast as he could. Good thing I had my apron on, cleaning him up was a cinch! I also love using it as a giant pocket and of course the aesthetic. 😊
I just bought a second hand embroidered bulgarian folk apron, and I'm spanish. It was so beautiful! Thanks to you I've discovered that I love folk costumes from all Europe.
You know what else needs to make a comeback, cloaks.
I've strongly considered making a cloak or a cape to replace my winter coat because I am often babywearing and my coat isn't big enough to wrap around both me and a baby
I think the first reason for aprons is genuinely fascinating because the 17th/18th centery styles of western Europe put the slits on the side so you can access the big ass pocket hanging underneath the garment. I think that is such a cool construction change!!
Also you're lovely, the video is great, and I hope you feel better soon! Oxoxoxox
"Nobody sees nothing" is actually pretty accurate - in Shakespear's time "nothing" was also slang for vulvas, hence the double meaning of "much ado about nothing"
ohhhhhhhhhhhh lol i was 11 years old when my father took ,e to my first Shakespearean play.....wow...old english is something else
@@rasheedahsilvertree Pretty much all of Shakespear's stuff is bawdy as heck, it's that slang has changed over time so some of it is "lost in translation" in a way.
Triple meaning, if you include the then-homophone “noting”.
How dare they call such a lovely part, 'nothing'!
Boy, they didn't teach us that in H.S. 😅
Me: living in germany, having a hungarian mom and therefore not just owning my own hungarian folk dress but also speaking hungarian.
Also me: watches an english video on it 😂😂
This has the same vibe as this american linguistics/history scholar here on youtube teaching me more about the roots of my (norwegian) language 😅
I've been an art student, I've worked in food service and now in a floral shop, and let me say... Aprons are the most convenient piece of attire to exist. My ALL TIME favorite aspect for them is shoving my hands in the pockets or underneath them to keep warm, but drying hands and wiping away paint are good reasons too..
UGH! It's so hard to wear kitchens, they just get in the way!
@Elizabeth Day ...or, if you wear it the way you wear a car or a bicycle or a wheelbarrow, without lifting it much if at all.
I know right! The stove is always moving to a place you can't reach it. Smh.
then you arent wearing they right type . close fitting ones with a bib front is what I find helpful in the kitchen. these are kind of frilly with the gathers. make your self a smooth front.
This pinged an old memory from when I was very young; my grandmother used to make tiny aprons like this for me, but they were made out of recycled things that had been embroidered (probably tablecloths) and she would sew eyelet lace along the bottom (she was Breton, so perhaps a nod to Breton folk aprons that have lace along the bottom) to stop me getting my dresses mucky when I came to visit because my mother always sent me to visit in my church dresses and my grandmother always wanted to teach me cookery, so there had to be a child-size apron at her house!
I love aprons and the practicality of them. I remember my Oma had a whole collection of her practical work aprons that were basically like a sleeveless lab coat, worn for everything from sewing to making yogurt.
Aprons are particularly useful when you have a toddler about the house who insists on wiping their nose on your skirts.
Mine like to rub cheese puff dust on my black pants 🙃
Peanut butter lips on my pants all the time 😂
Ahahahahaha!!!!
The first thing I learned to sew was an apron. My favorite apron had a bib front, great for a messy cook, your blouse stayed clean.
We should make a Folk Apron playlist ! Yours featuring 🇭🇺, mine 🇵🇹 (is still in the oven 🥧) and then adding more and more regions! Pour La Victoire commented with me that wanted to make one too! ❤️ Would be beautiful!
I'm almost 64 and remember my older female relatives wearing aprons much of the time. I like them for practical reasons -- I don't really have a farm, but I do have a bit of land, and have chickens and dairy goats and a garden, and I am also very prone to ruining my clothes with stains. I like best the aprons that have a bib to protect my shirts.
I never cared about aprons but youtube recommended me this video at 3am at night and now I want an apron. Love from Poland
between sewstine's ghiblicore dresses and your incredibly beautiful folk wear and love of aprons you've changed my whole approach to dressing!
it's not practical by *any* stretch of the imagination but i feel like you would enjoy the traditional dress of my region (valencia, spain) in its fanciest and most current form: fallera dresses. they're based on the dresses peasant women wore to work in the rice fields, only from 1929 onwards they have steadily turned fancier and fancier, and now they're (sometimes) super colorful and (always) full of embroidery and so, so much delicate lace! one of the most important features for me have always been the big lace aprons 🥰 and since before corona and hopefully after they're worn every year for our celebration for saint joseph (falles) they're still very much dynamic in terms of fashionable colours and patterns
They are soo pretty *. *
I had a doll in a Fallera dress that my grandmother bought me when I was little. I was obsessed with it! They're exquisite.
Aesthetic or practical? It's BOTH!!! my life goal is to be a cottagecore fairy.... but I am very messy and going to be an art teacher so APRONS definitely seem like something I need outside of the kitchen lol... I loved the folklore songs too xoxox
Me with my Finnish ass here like : I effin love aprons. 😁
Its the most usefull thing what I can wear while doing anything. Having a extra pocets and layer of protection against dirt is the best 🤟
This video was great in every way! Your elderly persona was so good that I laughed so hard I cried!
I wear aprons, daily, but generally the full ones that cover my torso, as well. I have these nice, gingham half-aprons my great-great-grandmother made in the 1950s or '60s, but I don't want to ruin them, so I wear them as "hostess aprons," not when I'm actually cooking or cleaning, haha.
This should be fun! I have worn pinafores (like the one in my profile pic) and aprons every day of my life for more than 30 years now. One of the most valuable pieces of clothing I curate, especially because I farm, and they are extremely useful. Can’t wait to hear your reasoning for adding folk aprons to the mix!
So cute! I absolutely love yours. Where is a good place to get clothing like that or patterns?
I wish I'd been shown this video as part of a home economics class.
I know right! It’s so much easier to understand
I wish i'd had a home ec class.
@@catelynh1020 Me too.
I was considered the odd one out - of all the girls (we had one lone boy in my class), I was the only one who made an apron instead of a skirt. When the teacher tried to convince me to change my project, I pointed out that the second half of the class was cooking, wasn't it? So an apron would only be practical, right? She didn't like it... but couldn't argue the point.
@@PhoenyxAshe I like the way you think!
This was lovely, hilarious, instructional, historical, and practical!
That is a combination I have never come across before.
Kudos to you for achieving so much in one video!
I love aprons like this so much. I made my first out of linen for the aesthetic a while back, but since then I have fallen in love with them for the sake of the big washable pocket that keeps my clothes from getting dirty. From my farm to yours, aprons are also great for carrying rabbits! Keeps them calm and keeps you from getting scratched.
I love your singing, you know so many wonderful songs and you have such a beautiful voice for them!
As a housewife and mom of two I QUICKLY found out why aprons are amazing ahahaha. They keep my dress clean, I wipe my hands in them, I clean my kids faces in them etc... Wonderful video!
I made a Hello Kitty apron for my friend’s daughter for Christmas one year. My own Hello Kitty one I bought inspired me to make it for her. I would wear an apron just for the protective factor alone, but for someone who is body conscious, I also dig them to hide behind.
Halfway through this video, I realized just how useful an apron with pockets would be for me. I hate wearing purses while I grocery shop, and I need pockets so I can keep my hands free. My comfortable pants don’t have pockets. An apron would be perfect!
And now I have an excuse to use my new-to-me ruffler presser foot attachment for my 1915 hand-crank Singer. Thank you.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
Just recently made a large "chef" apron full of mistakes and learning. Found some tartan print pillowcases at the thrift store that seem like good candidates to practice your tutorial. I am more of a practical wearer and with the tartan, I can be practical and flashy!
I've got LOTS of aprons because the way I work, I need to change to a clean one often.
My mother never wore one, but my grandmother always had one on. The first time I tried to clean my own house, I realized my grandmother was right.
My "aesthetic" is not looking dirty after I've been cleaning house and cooking all day!
I can't imagine living without one.
My grandmother made hers from the fabric that flour came in, unfortunately, not many companies that sell flour sell it in cloth bags anymore.
I think the reason the thrifted aprons all have small patterns could be because small, busy patterns are good for hiding stains! Definitely something to consider if I make one ^^
I adore aprons and wear them all the time! People always look at me weird but it protects my clothes and looks pretty so I'm the real winner
I just made one last week. As someone who likes to make cookies an apron keep the flour off my black clothes. I made one with Swedish ribbons on the bottom.
I started making a super aesthetic and frilly apron for the cottage core ghibli aesthetic but never got around to finishing it. Then I had to hand wash one of my floor length circle skirts twice this week because I keep spilling food on myself so I decided it was time to finish the apron and just wear it every day, so that's what I did this afternoon. I'll probably make a more practical one soon too,so thanks for the inspiration!
You could do a video on the most obscure Hungarian Folk traditions, crafts, food, farming, dance, basket weaving.......and I would watch. You make everything interesting
I would love to see your video about the history and greater details, yes please! I've been wearing aprons for some time now, I made a new year intention going into 2020, that I would make more effort to be more feminine and wear my dresses more often. Best thing I ever did! Plus it looks so pretty. I'd spent the past 5+ years in the ambulance service and green heavy combat style trousers and steel toe capped boots, so this "being more feminine" was more my clothes as I've always been pretty girly, try to be elegant and ladylike ❤
Apart from cooking and baking I never wore an apron. But as I am wearing skirts almost all the time.... you convinced me to try it. I made one out of an old tablecloth. And I fell in love. With a small child it is very handy. Wiping hands and mouth, carrying him when his shoes are dirty.....You are soooo right. When I need to go to town, I take off the apron and the skirt is clean to go. Thank you :-)
Definitely think in a past life I wore aprons on a daily basis as I am forever wiping my hands in my clothes, I think I might have to make a couple to stop my clothes getting so dirty! 🤣
I enjoyed your video, with BONUS folk songs! I have agreed to make a kroj for a girl participating in a Miss Czech contest in the US. Also, I find I am reaching for an apron in the kitchen more often these days, as I'm cooking and baking at home almost all the time.
I was so glad to see how you attached the ties! I thought they had to be one long piece of the waist band. I'm glad to know I was wrong. You've inspired me to make an apron of my own before I try to make one for the kroj.
Delightful! I don't do costuming, but I cook, clean, craft, and garden. More and more, I'm discovering how useful things like 18th century pockets, a bergere that accommodates long hair in a bun, or folk aprons can be. It may look odd with jeans, but who cares? So glad I found this channel!
I've added an apron as part of my post-apocalyptic LARP costume and I've ended up using it whenever I'm crafting as well. Its perfect for keeping secret snacks in as well as wiping off paint and other random things from my hands.
Kat Drinkak. ❤️Secret snacks ❤️. ☺️
Also, in this day and age aprons will cut down just grabbing a paper towel. I think they are environmentally friendly too! Anything we can do to cut down on waste is a win! I love your hair tutorials as well! 👑
I grew up on a farm and my grandmother (Nan) started making me aprons when I was little to help me with the farm chores. I no longer live on a farm, but I still wear them everyday because they make life easier 😂. I carry everything in them....eggs, laundry, even my cat yesterday 😂
I come from a community of bateliers in France (the people who live and work on barges, those large, flat-bottomed, metal boats that transport things like sand, petrol, rocks, tar, etc.). We spend all our life on the barges (péniches in French), we are home-schooled and work on them as well, and women from the community all have aprons! Super important for us. I'm 23 and I have three aprons for different purposes, two that attach at the back and have straps like an open-back dress and one like the one you made, but much larger (covers all the way to my back). Everyone I know wears aprons. I'm not a woman and even I use them all the time because they're so useful. Also I'm a herbalist healer, I make medecine and balms and ointments for people so when I go outside in the garden or in nature to harvest plants to make my herbal remedies, the apron is really useful!
Thank you. I don't sew. But, I use aprons for modesty. I live in an apartment building with many neighbors, so using aprons for pockets and modesty is very convenient. Your suggestions are so helpful.
6:52 Mr. M is looking at you so puzzled, like he's thinking, "I know that's you Mom. Why are you acting so weirdly?"
Very nice job on the video. Keep up the good work.
I'm an old Southern Woman living in the Ocala National Forest, North Central Florida. I have Jewish roots and I dream of making a real Vardo caravan.
I've been wearing aprons all of my life. I always thought it was just either a country thing or a Southern thing. I guess it is both. I wear the for both aesthetics and practicality. I think they look nice and homey. Practically they are great! I can open and oven, grab a hot baked potato, move a pot, wipe a crying child's face, dust a mirror, clean up a spill, cover/hide a shy child, or take it off and fold it into a pad for a hot dish. The possibilities are unending.
Blessings upon you, sweet one,
Aunt B
My favorite apron has a topstitched pocket on it. It's probably my favorite, I use it all the time to hold eggs or to hold my garden tools (snips, ties, ect) when I'm gardening. It's very convenient to have everything right at hand.
I don't personally hate zippers too much, I prefer them vastly to having to sew even one button hole since I have to do those by hand.
Also, I love your songs! They are so much fun~
I love aprons! I was lucky to inherit a bunch from my mother, grandmother and great aunts. Now, my daughters steal them for using for Lolita J-fashion outfits as well as vintage themed clothing outfits. Thank you for sharing the apron love.
So glad of finding and being part of recreation community.
Aprons are such a useful piece of one's wardrobe. I made a fancy one for my Christmas outfit and plan to make some simple ones for other uses. Your video was delightful. I enjoyed you folk singing and your humor.
I'm excited to make my own apron thanks to you! I always just make a pocket out of my shirt for chores. Im trying to get more in touch with my roots and be more practical and stylish at the same time. Thanks! 🌟
Thank you! I recently read Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver book. It made me wonder why aprons are worn as a key part of certain folk dress where it's also decorative versus in other cultures where it's mainly worn while doing housework, etc. This helped me understand and appreciate much more. Also loved hearing the folk songs!
Cottage-core !!
OH YOU HAVE MY HEART!
I wear a kitchen apron often for practicality (keeping my clothes clean while doing tasks or ahem eating lunch while distractedly watching youtube) but now I might make a few prettier ones for aesthetics as well!
I am a potter. The apron is life. I made a pink and white polka dot bibbed apron for my great niece for Christmas. It has lavish lace trim. It has heart shaped pockets on the skirt and the bib. I am told that she wears it to be a fairy tale character - which is most of her 5 year old day. Her initial is stitched on the top pocket just because I am extra like that. :)
Very practical for me! Thanks for showing us a simple method. Auntie is wonderful! It's just amazing to me how supportive all of your guests are. So willing to share 💜. Please ask kitty to appear when kitty so desires. I know, I know, kitty requires alot of rest to get kitty things done. 😻
I love it! Please make any videos you want about the culture. I am 1/4 Hungarian... my great grandparents on my father's side immigrated to the USA around the time my grandpa was born. But they assimilated really well and I know almost nothing about the culture except for a few delicious dishes. But the more I wach you the more I realize I am so Hungarian! It's really neat to see what parts of my family history has made me who I am! I am so thankful to be learning from you, and I'm so glad to have found your channel last year! Thank you!
I made myself a full apron and a simple one. I made them both for practical reasons cause I see myself as a very messy person. haha! I plan to use your tutorial to make a badly needed apron. thank you for the tutorial and the history lesson. I tend to visualize things as I am either listening to someone speak or while its coming out of my own mouth so obviously I got a laugh from your "wearing a kitchen" cause its nice to know im not the only one who does that. haha
I have always worn aprons for the practical benefits (farm life), but I also love them. It always feels like putting on my armor to go to battle with my chores.😂 Just started sewing my own for waste not reasons and your video was informative, entertaining, and lovely. Take care, and thanks from Canada.
I wear aprons every day as part of my wardrobe, because of their function…and the gesture of fabric moving makes a beautiful, soft sound. I was a kindergarten teacher for many years, and my little ones loved standing in front of me while I wrapped the sides of my apron around them. So comforting.
I love your videos. Thank you!
I love that second folk song!
I love the way you did your apron, it is simple yet so lovely. I love aprons for the usefulness, but why not having something lovely also at the same time. Thank you for sharing, love you from Canada!
I'm so in love with aprons and got SO excited when I saw the title for this video. I do wear them many times a week, more in the summertime. I used to only wear them for the aesthetic but more recently have enjoyed having one around (haha!) as a hand towel/rag to wipe things with and also as a pocket when needed. The tutorial was wonderful!
I'm sorry to hear Anna isn't feeling well. Sending goodness her way.
I love aprons! I'm making a new one right now (based on a cook's apron from the Workwoman's Guide, because I wear 1840s stuff and those aprons work nicely with that). The practicality truly can't be understated; I LOATHE having wet, sweaty, or dirty hands, so I am ALWAYS wiping my hands on something, and an apron is much better than my skirt for that. And I do lots of handsewing and other not super messy but kind of messy crafts, and I'm thinking of making a fancier apron for those. The one I'm currently sewing (to replace a very old one that needs to retire) is just plain linen, and will have a bib that I pin up, and is meant more for kitchen and laundry tasks; but I have a fabulous cotton printed fabric that I think I'll turn into a matching sunbonnet and fancier, crafting and painting sort of apron (and it'll look nicer if I wear it out of my house for any reason; the linen one will look fine but plain, and the cotton one will look especially good in comparison).
Ahh. Thank you for this little tutorial. I'm starting out in Historybounding - and sewing. Sewing is intimidating for me (I have no idea why. I already knit, crochet, cross stitch and embroider. . .but the sewing freaks me out. rotflol I'd love to be able to make stuff for myself, though, so I'm plugging away at learning as I can.) and have been wanting some aprons - and simple sewing projects to move myself along, too. This tutorial. . .is simple enough that I think I can do it!! And using bedsheets is an amazing idea. I can thrift those fairly easily (as opposed to finding actual linen that doesn't break my budget?! :P) and this makes it more than possible for me to tackle this project and maybe make myself a pile of aprons - even before I get skirts made. (Yeah, pockets I can do, aprons are a good step up. Shift is next on the agenda but is bigger so I keep getting intimidated and backing off. lol Aprons - are good.) While I'd love to have an apron with the front bib too - I can see how that might go from making this waist-style one.
Thank you. I'll give this a shot. :D (or several)
If it helps, I started by sewing a lot of historical underwear (shifts, petticoats, etc). I figured "eh, even if I mess up, it's underwear so no one else will ever see it, so as long as it's functional it's fine!" That definitely helped take the pressure off and having a few successful projects gave me the confidence to try actual clothes after a while. Good luck!
I wear aprons in the kitchen. Some are pretty and some just practical. All of mine cover my upper dress too, one way or another. I also insist on the aprons having pockets.
Thank you so much for this sweet and informative video.
Your apron looks great!!
Starting with undergarments is awesome advice, and don't be scared of starting with hand sewing! It feels pretty identical to knitting/embroidering and it's easier to backtrack if you make a mistake.
I have made a few aprons. My grandma and mom wore them, especially for chores. I love them. So handy. Especially, with pockets. Also, they are very pretty.
I've seriously been thinking of making myself some aprons. My grandmother always wore them. I rarely wear dresses but jeans get dirty while cooking or cleaning in the kitchen, too. ...and I'm constantly misplacing my dish towel. 🙄 Thanks for the inspiration and prompting to go ahead and tackle this project. I'm also thinking to make some extras and see how well they sell. 🤔
I love my kitchen / gardening (on the balcony) aprons. They go from one side of my body to the other, quite a bit wider than yours. And of course, the most important thing, they have pockets! Either one big one in the middle or to smaller ones of center. Also, some of my kitchen aprons have bibs, so I don't soil my tops.
I am loving the traditional songs. 😄 Also I couldn’t stop laughing, because you’d be magic if you could wear a kitchen. 😂 but I only really use aprons for cooking but I’m starting to use them as giant pockets to move books around. 😂
I started wearing a long apron last summer as I got a puppy and his nails/drool was ruining my clothes. I made it with fabric from IKEA so it is a little thicker and more durable. It has been great for decreasing the amount of washes my pants need and protecting my delicate summer dresses 😊 This winter I noticed another benefit: keeping me warm! The panel on my chest and the apron's length are like wearing another layer of clothing and it has been great. Thank you for teaching us about aprons and their many uses! The songs were so cute, thank you for sharing those too ❤ I am married to a carpenter and yes, he is cheeky like the one in the song, ha ha!
the minute you said you were gonna make it out of a bedsheet I knew I was going to make one! thank you for this tutorial :)
I grew up on a farm, and my granny carried eggs, apples, jars of preserves, whatever she needed to carry, and had to have a fresh apron to go to town. I still use a full apron around the house, and a half apron for my sewing,
Lovely! Would love to see a video if you make those folkloric type skirts yourself. sewing closures is the bane of my existence so I think the tie closure with an apron over it is a genius workaround.
I like the practical but of i have the choise i make theme myself from a Nice loking fabric with lots of colour 🥰. I have 2 for the kitchen 1 for hanging the wash with a pocket for the clothpins . Need a new one forworking in the garden . Realy like the look of your sewingmachine the sound was allso very pleased. Thanks for sharing your apron recepy 😉😊💗
Sewing was a required class for all girls in my area's public schools (near Los Angeles). The first thing we made was an apron like this! Thank you for your very entertaining video!
Well, this seems to be apron week. I inherited about 10 apron patterns from my grandmother, and up until now, I really had no interest -- okay, a mild interest for like 2 styles of apron. Now, I'm re-thinking this. I will have to take another look at the apron patterns. They are mostly from the 1930s and 40s. I am going to have another look at them.
I wear simple cotton aprons when baking, and a fine linen apron with my north-Norwegian folk costume.
Loved this. I also use my aprons to wrap and tie the feet of stuck calves to pull them from their mothers; better, softer and lsss traumatizing than chains. 💗
I have a synthetic, store-bought (but pretty with its black flower pattern) apron that I wear to keep all my frilly clothes clean when I cook and do messy stuff, but it's rather stiff and plasticky. It's also the kind that has a neck loop and goes up over my chest, which is great if I have to open bottles that fizz when opened or I'm doing the washing up and catch running water with a spoon back, but it's too stiff to be comfortable for other chores. I will try making an apron like this for other chores.
I have always loved aprons. They remind me of my mother. I have always made aprons as special occasion gifts, ie; Christmas present for my mother, birthday present for my brother and more recently an apron and matching chef's hat for my Herblist/Cook sister-in-law/girlfriend. My aprons tend to be for show and function.
I wish you a speedy recovery. My thoughts are with you.🌷I have to watch this video again because the fabrics are so beautiful. I love the cushion behind you and the floral skirt and pink apron combination: all gorgeous. Thank you. 🌺
Thank you CZcams to recommending me this Chanel! Your authenticity is on anther level 😘❤️ a lot of love from Muslim girl
I just discovered your channel! I love it! I used to dance Hungarian folk dances. I love the costumes, music, and of course the dance. I also want to learn how to do Hungarian embroidery. Keep up your good work.
Lovely Pretty Shepherd, you and Morgan Donner have completely converted me to the joys of aprons. I haven't made one yet, but I'm about to! With pockets!! The structure, the practicality, the joy 😊 🌹 🌟
So i absolutely love when you sing and also your hair is absolutely shiny and beautiful. And you are so knowledgable. I love this