Sewing a Vintage Inspired Apron

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The little strawberry on the tomato is used to sharpen your pins and needles. Stuffed with an abrasive.

Am I the only one who adores Clara's sudden cameos? Like you're just listening to Morgan, checking what she's doing and then suddenly, and without a warning...a Kitty.

"I can't decide if i'm going to hand stich or machine stich" 9 times out of 10 that means it's being hand stitched.

Here my brain was yelling at the screen saying "No! Make a pocket inside the pocket so REAL scissors don't get lost and will poke out!" Then the head-turns like a dog as Morgan continued making this, and then my brain's realization that everything is oversized and ADORABLE because not everything needs to be purely functional. 😅😆

My mum is a quilter, I am a crafter. She made us like tabbard style aprons. Mine is covered in paint and glue. Mum's is covered in pockets and straps, little bits of elastic to hold spools of threads, a few magnets for pins etc. then we wear them to craft fayres

as someone who was OBSESSED with the borrowers/the idea of every day objects being proportionally huge as a child (heck even now), this brings me so much joy and absolutely is increasing my desire to make oversized objects like the pocket accessories. good idea for fabric stash busting!!

I am not a collector of hat pins, but a giant version of the tomato pincushion as the display for your collection of hat pins... That would be iconic.

Back in the day - pins and needles weren't made of stainless steel - they rusted. The little strawberry was filled with emery; run the pin or needle several times through the strawberry and you "sanded" off the rust. Those tomato/strawberry pin cushions have been around for decades. I'm pushing 88 and I remember them from my childhood. Why the combination of a veggie and a fruit I have no idea.

This got me thinking about how cute a medieval Barbie outfit would be, since that era of natural dyes produces such a lovely pink colour.

I really appreciate this video 😊 One day I came home from shopping with a new apron. My mom was perplexed and unenthusiastic. She said no one wears aprons anymore, trying to make me feel like an idiot for wasting my money. I said, "maybe that's because they don't own one." 😂 I love my apron and don't get wet washing dishes anymore. Your apron is super cute and I love the cris cross straps 😍

I already have 50 million hobbies, but every time you post something like this--extremely cute and practical--it makes me want to take up sewing.

I too love an apron. Recently a friend came over to mass make peirogi and I held out a handful of aprons and asked, "Which one would you like?" She was taken aback, picked on and put it on and exclaimed, "this is the first time I've ever worn an apron." Whaaaaaa? I have cooking, sewing and construction aprons (including a plastic tiling saw apron cause it spits water). And then the holiday themed aprons... so many aprons!

The "Noli me tangere" belt in that font is just a great detail, like a pious middle ages lady with a gangsta side would wear 😄

To hold the tools in place, may I recommend glueing a strong magnet to the backside of the props, and then placing a corresponding magnet on the backside of the apron. That way you can easily take the tools out, without damaging the apron, and still wear the apron alone, if you choose. You could even make other props to fit in the pockets, and swap things in and out as you want, whenever you want.

I love how the orange scissors are iconic internationally. The orange colour was a coincidence. It was what the manufacturer happened to have in the machine when the prototypes were made.

I was just reminded of something I wanted to make. I'm a substitute paraeducator and I was working in a preschool for two weeks, and normally I wear dresses with pockets but one day I wore jeans which did not have pockets! One of the other ladies let me borrow a little half-apron with about 6 pockets and I thought it was so, so clever for stashing tissues, bandaids, stickers, hand sanitizer, etc. Thinking about it, recess/lunchroom staff frequently wear these and I never realized how handy they are. Younger me probably thought they were silly but 30+ me is well willing to embrace practicality when it comes to runny-nosed children.

Your "don't touch me" belt is awesome

here's a little information about those orange-handled scissors The world's first plastic-handled scissors were born in Finland, in the village of Fiskars, in 1967. The scissors in question completely revolutionized the perception of household scissors. In 1972, Fiskars was the first company to start mass production of left-handed ergonomic scissors. Left-handed scissors can be identified by their red color. In 1975, beveled blades were introduced and the cutting angle of the blades was optimized to be more efficient and durable. In 1980, the plastic of the handles became resistant to dishwashers, autoclaves, UV light, shocks and stress. In 1994, a new production method was developed to minimize the number of subsequent repairs. The model was the old All-metal tailor's scissors, when Fiskars designer Olof Bäckström designed a new model in the early 1960s. Bäckström emphasized the ergonomics of the handles and chose plastic as the material, which was just entering households. The scissors had to become black, red or green. However, during the manufacturing phase, the machine user decided to use up the orange color in the plastic machine, which was already used in the juicer produced by the company. The random color was surprisingly appealing, and a vote was held between orange and black. The votes of the 16-person jury were exactly 9-7 in favor of the orange.

The Morgan Barbie apron is whimsical perfection!