Interconnected Wardrobe Refashion

First I used some curtains and dinner napkins to do this to my favorite defunct pair of pants.





Then I used the bottom front half of a denim barn jacket to make this many pocketed apron, every patch is a pocket, it's my craft show money, pen, notepad holder. The tapestry panel is from a trip I took to Paris in my pre-mommy life, just after I bought my first sewing machine. It spent the better part of the last decade in the same box as the dinner napkins and curtains.



What to do with the rest of the napkins and the top of the barn jacket, well make a new fancier barn jacket that can stand up to yard work. Because pretty matters.




I wonder what else is lurking in the corners of the attic?

Mother Daughter Aprons

Aprons made from curtains
with really big pockets
made from dinner napkins



Curtains are heavy cotton and 36" long
I used one adult apron and one child's apron from a craft store as patterns,
just line them up at the bottom hem and trace, I didn't leave a seam allowance on the adult apron, I used quilt binding to go around all of the unfinished edges and to make the ties.
For the child's apron I folded over about a half inch around the armholes and across the top. I used quilt binding for the ties too. The dragonfly is a copy of a water color painting by a friend of mine, printed on canvas.



The pockets are made from dinner napkins, folded in half with the fold sewn along the bottom and the they are stitched up the sides. There are two more lines of stitching so there are three pockets. By folding the napkins you actually end up with six pockets on each apron.



They take a beating, can be machine washed and dried, they have been used for painting, cooking, gardening, and a number of messy projects for almost two years now. The pictures here are from today, so you can see how well they have held up.
The curtains and napkins themselves are a Waverly pattern that I bought almost ten years ago.



Mother and daughter in aprons as seen through the eyes of my five year old.