Freshly laundered vintage aprons, tablecloth and doileys.

Recently I purchased four vintage gingham aprons.

Three were chicken scratch embroidered.

I also purchased a chicken scratch table cloth.

Someone had put a lot of time and effort into embroidering it

and

the four aprons 

and

had never used them.

I washed all my purchases and ironed them,

and

they looked so lovely on the clothes line

I thought to photograph them.

I also got the 100% cotton lace in a pennant design from the same seller.

I have never seen cotton lace like this

and

I paid just $6 for it

and

two lovely little vintage embroidered doileys.

I'm quite impressed with my little purchases.

I think that makes about 30 aprons in my vintage collection now.

This unique garden ornament was given to me by my SIL.

He knows I love quirky rustic bits and pieces for my garden.

He found it somewhere and immediately thought of me....

LOL

Anyhow I added the rusted horse shoe

and

thought I'd leave the white fungus insitu,

because it looks like a white bunny rabbit profile.

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A vintage inspired apron

I would like to share an apron I made in 2010 when I could still sew a bit.

Now I cannot sew because of back problems

and

maybe never again so I thought I would share this apron.

I just loved making it and entered it in quite a few local agricultural shows in the district.

It did very well and got quite a few first place cards.

The pattern for this vintage inspired apron is from Australian Handmade magazine.

All the fabrics used are from the

Leanika range

designed

by

Dena Fishbein

Detail of lined pocket

Side view on my dressmaker's dummy

Bib detail.

I inserted ricrac

into a tuck

and

sewed another row below the tuck.

I then hand embroidered each row of ricrac.

Another view of pocket

with

stiped fabric binding

ricrac

and

hand embroidery detail