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…
Sometimes you are working and need an apron that has added strength. You are doing tough work and you don’t want to worry about your clothes. But Canvas can be hard to wear, it can be very stiff and uncomfortable to move in for a long time period. We took a light weight canvas and…
Any history on Aprons that I read, always begins with linen. It seems that linen was the first fabric used and I find it curious that somehow in todays culture it is largely ignored. No one I know has a linen Apron, this exclusion makes me curious as to how it got left behind. Unable…
Our most popular springtime Apron remains to be the Gathering Bag Apron. It’s as simple as having a bag strapped to you, you stay hands free, to pick, to weed, to harvest. You don’t have to work your way around the garden and then realize that the basket got left way back at the end…
Here is our Comfortable Plus Size Prairie Bib Apron, it is for true plus size, fitting up to size 32. Below is the traditional back view. But without a doubt, the most comfortable apron is the one that hangs from the shoulders and does not tie behind your neck. Not that those are uncomfortable but…