Apron Love

Oh my goodness!  I think I have fallen in love!

You may remember this...

The 'Marilyn' apron.

 I had not forgotten it (though it was sometime ago that I bought it, all from the lovely 'Tikki Patchwork') but was somewhat daunted when I got out the 'pattern' and found that it was a series of instructions for the pieces to cut, and decided to put it away until I was feeling in the right frame of mind for concentration. (Which doesn't happen too often, you understand!)

This morning, awake early and up browsing blogs at silly-o'clock, I read Miss Ginger's post about the lovely aprons she is considering making and decided I should grasp the bull by the horns and get on with it.  With luck, it was going to be ready before Mr U-t-B was awake and ready to do the Saturday morning shopping with me.

Anyway, that's not quite how it turned out, as I've only just finished it, at lunchtime.  But I'm pleased with it all the same, even if I was mightily frustrated along the way.

Cheery colours...

Ric-rac trimmed pockets, of the capacious kind (not the little ones the pattern showed)...

Sweet crossover...

Bow at the back...

I am so taken with it that I even decided to try to take a picture of me in it!  But the camera ran out of battery, just as I put on my very best Marilyn Monroe pose...

The pattern was from 'Threaded Pear'.  They have several other gorgeous patterns...

Pretty in Pleats

{But a word of warning - whilst the cutting out was really quite simple in the end, I did find the instructions a little difficult to follow at times.}

I will make this again now that I have it all figured out.

But in the meantime, I have some housework to do!