Time to roll up the sleeves…

…and break out the bobbins! What’s a bobbin?? Well, I asked myself that too when I first saw a sewing machine. Actually, I was full of questions when I first tried my hand at sewing, but I finally figured out most of the features of my sewing machine through lots of trial and even more errors. And for the record, a bobbin is just a little cylinder wound with thread that you put inside the machine.

Anyways, I started sewing a while back, but never really got into the swing of it. However, once I decided upon this sewing thesis, I decided to have an official beginning project instead of starting out cold. The project of choice: an apron.

I bought a nautical themed remnant and matching remnants a long time ago intending to make my friend something incredibly awesome. As usual, that idea fell off the wayside. However, with her birthday looming closer and closer, I finally decided. She had been baking a lot recently and I remembered a few months prior, she was looking at cute aprons online. So, I set out to make the best apron I’ve ever madeā€¦not a big deal since it would be my first.

I used this apron as a template.

While cutting out the pieces, I decided to make the apron reversible. One side looked a little plainer than the other, so I took the apron skirt and pocket and decided to try my hand at embroidery. I learned basic embroidery stitches using this wonderful tutorial blog and created…

Template and product

It took me awhile to figure out how I wanted everything to look, but my friend Nick gave me some advice and voila!

The finished product!!

The kicker: it’s reversible!!

Happy 21st Birthday!!

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