Valentine's Day Apron

The hubs & I recently chatted about how we wanted to celebrate Valentine's day this year, & we decided to have "a date" at home.  Fighting the crowds of over-dressed, love-crazed people, & paying way too much for our dinner just doesn't sound appealing to me at all.  Plus, the older we get, the more life gets hectic, & suddenly staying at home becomes a treat.  

So as the main feature of our "stay-at-home-date" I'll be cooking a super-tasty dinner, (the menu is yet to be determined) while wearing a super-snazzy & festive Valentine's Apron (& probably some not-so-snazzy sweatpants).

During the holidays, I was given a really cute striped tea towel, that served as gift-wrap for a yummy loaf of pumpkin bread.  (Great idea, by the way!)  I cannot bring myself to actually use tea towels as rags - they're just far too cute to get dirty - which they totally would, in MY kitchen.

Below are my supplies:

Steps:

• Iron some interfacing on the reverse side of some red fleece, or felt.  This will make your pockets nice & strong. 



• I used a heart pattern (I found at Cut Out & Keep) & some pinking shears to cut out these adorable heart pockets.  You want them to be at least 6 inches across when you print them out, mine were a teeny bit smaller than they should've been.
• Pin the pockets onto front of the apron (I used my stripes to help with alignment!) & stitch them on - but only along the bottom half of the heart shape.  Be sure to leave the top half open, so you can still use it as a pocket!
• The top of your apron will be the side that does NOT have the hang-tag on it.  You don't want to have to punch a grommet through that tag thingy.  Fold the top corners down at a 45 degree angle, pin them, & iron them to make them smooth, & stitch the corners down. 



• Position your grommets as shown in the picture below, & follow the instructions on the back of the grommet kit to permanently attach them.



• Now take the whole length of ribbon off the spool.  You'll need about 3 yards, minimum.  Start at the top, and thread the ribbon in & out of the grommets as shown in the below photos - to create a cute criss-cross in the back, & a "knotted" belt type feature in the front.  Make sure the ends of the ribbon are trimmed at a neat 45 degree angle, to prevent fraying.  Now simply put it on, & let's get cookin'!

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Comments

[Rachel]

This is so cute! I would have never known it was a tea towel!

[maggy, red ted art]

Oh we made tea towel aprons too - we used Wonderweb (like bondaweb) love your grommits idea!! Fab!

Maggy
(http://www.redtedart.com/2010/06/25/how-make-a-no-sew-apron-from-a-tea-towel/)

[M*]

Yea for cute tea-towel aprons! :)
Thanks for visting my blog and commenting on my toddler-tea-towel tutorial! :)

[Lauren @ YoungNester]

Adorable! I might try and make me one this week! I would love for you to link up any of your projects to my Ten Buck Tuesday link parties!

www.youngnester.blogspot.com

[Sweet T]

Thanks! It was so much easier than I expected, especially with my very elementary sewing skills! (Ha!) I hope you're able to try this project!