Shnookie's Apron

Carrying on with my "finish projects before Baby #5 comes" rush here, I tackled another one, although it was still not without screw-ups. I made an apron for my youngest sister, who my Dad always called "Shnookie" growing up. We have no idea what that means, only that it sounds kinda PA dutchified. Anyway, I bought the cute BROWN cow fabric (I prefer brown cows over black and white ones!) with the intention of making her an apron for her bridal shower present. Now that she has been married for a few years I am finally getting around to it.





I would have felt bad giving her a present (we called it a belated birthday gift) and then saying, "Hey will you model this for me for my blog" so my 5yo took some pictures of big old pregnant me modeling it. My sister is skinny, despite my constant attempts to feed her sweets and high-fat foods, so she looks really, really cute in it!





I used the Nae-Nae apron tutorial from CraftinessIsNotOptional as a basis for how I made the apron, but I changed a few things. I used a ruffle on the bottom instead of pleats (LOVE that I can do them on my serger now!) and I pretty much ignored the measurements she gave for the ties cause I was being lazy. Also, when I initially cut it out, I used my straight-sided apron and swooped up the back to get the cute shape. Then I held it up and made sure it looked right. Well, I had it all pinned together and tried in on before I realized that I was making it to fit enormously pregnant me and my sister is sickeningly skinny! I ended up unpinning and trimming in at least 12 inches from the sides.

I LOVE the waist ties in this cute bow tied around to the front (it hides my belly a little!) On her, the tails are much longer, of course. I interfaced the waist ties- a pain, but it was worth it in the end.
I backed it with a beige, unbleached muslin color fabric I had on hand - I just had to piece two pieces of material together for it. (Actually, everything I had was leftovers from other projects that I had on hand- YAY for stashbusting!!!)

It makes me want to make myself a new apron, even though I already have my own brown cow apron (different fabric) because the bows and ruffles make me feel adorable wearing it! :)