No matter what goes on in the Apron Company, it’s the creation of something new that lures me. There is always a fabric, an idea, an image, a feeling or a mood that develops into a new apron. There is little that compares to a day alone in the studio to work with a new…
We have a page offering white Aprons on the website. They answer customer needs especially for theater. We use simple cotton and batiste. But I have pictures in my head of aprons that I want to make in white. But I need a cotton with a fine hand, tightly woven and an amazing soft drape…
Just because a design works for one fabric doesn’t mean it will work for another. I made a pattern that I want to make in denim. The denim is a bit heavier then quilting cotton.This means that ruffles and elastic gathers work differently. This means that I will be sent completely back to the drawing board to…
It occurs to me that if I can make this Apron with 45″ wide fabric, then 60″ should allow me to achieve something with a more dramatic flounce, longer skirt and with any hope, additional awesomeness. Making it from denim means that the ruffled top will not ruffle as delicately as I would want…
I like to think we all run enthusiastically into our futures grabbing bites of new ideas that we accept or not into our lives. We all wonder what lay ahead and fill our heads with dreams and wondrous images of what is to come. It’s also interesting that no matter how forward thinking we are…
The winter has been extremely long this year and spring feels nearly hopeless in its arrival. My dark, chilly mood clearly drove fabric choices. I bought loud, bright and floral prints for spring. Once the prints were in the studio, I could not wait to rip open packages and start cutting. I needed that breath…
Writing a new post, I will tell you that every post of mine begins with the comfy chair piled with the right pillows, a fresh cup of coffee made from the good coffee and music that helps me get into writing mode. I am not a writer by profession, it’s a struggle that I find…
My grandmother called it, ” a bee in your bonnet”. It refered to the situation when you had a thought in your head and it wouldn’t go away. That is the situation for me with aprons that you see in vintage photographs. I long to make them. As a business, we tell ourselves, “No! we…
I always thought that my plus size customers wanted to downplay shape. Answering that, and paying attention to cost, I made the Plus Size skirt on those aprons to have less gathers, that way it fell closer to the hip and didn’t make anyone look hippier than they were already. But I was never satisfied…
I love the Ruffled Apron that I designed. It’s cute.It’s a good fabric choice and it holds a lot of stuff. But time passes and I need to change it a bit. Good design for me is a journey. Improvements come, design features pass, fabrics change. I sat looking at this photo and wondered why…
When we had the retail store, we got to see first hand what happens when a plus size woman comes in and shops. They hesitate, they admire and they leave. Even with a full rack of plus size aprons devoted to them, they touch, they linger, look and leave. We learned that it had nothing…
New Apron designs are always exciting. This one is our first single piece apron. It has no waistband, no separate bodice or skirt. It’s just one piece with long ties. The neck ties work best if they are pretied to the length that works for you. Doing that, you can toss it on as if…