Locating Week Six

This week I made my final apron, I used the a new pattern with the extra room at the front taken in to consideration. I thought that this would be an easy task as I had already done it with the twill however I was wrong. I got the measurements just slightly off and had not bought enough cotton to create the apron as one solid piece of fabric. The options I had were to buy the material again, to make the apron with horizontal stripes instead of vertically like I had decided or to create the apron as three separate panels and add seems. Seems were on the necessities list for the Apron brief and so is was an obvious choice. I decided to use this set back as an advantage to show more skill in my apron. I added piping on the bias into the seem to create a different type of stripe. I also added two in seem pockets this process was quite fiddly and over locking the seems while keeping the pockets the same size was quite challenging.

I added a button whole pocket to the top right of the apron. this creates a focal point to the apron.I also then made and added the bag to the inside of the apron, this has made the apron alot more practical and easy to carry.





I feel this apron is successful in showing my skill level as it includes; bias binding, seems, over locking, rulo, button whole pocket, in seam pocket, matching stripes and piping. All of these techniques are in the apron brief under the necessities and curiosities.  It is also successful in the idea behind the apron the attached pouch in which the apron goes into. I found this unit positively challenging as it forced me to think in a way I hadn't before and I got to make my initial idea of the apron in a bag come to life for me this was a personal achievement for me.