What's Cookin'?

Last week I spent a wonderful amount of time at garage sales, thrift stores, and an antique mall.  I sure came home with some fun stuff.  Time to share some of it with you!

I wanted a little toy stove for a long time.  In a quilting magazine a few years ago, they showed the workspace of a quilter who had so many cute things.  She had a little stove and I guess that's what got me going.  I found one at a county flea market last year, but it was way too pricey.  This stove is smaller and cheaper, both OK by me.  And it's a nice pig color.

Now that they had a stove, the pigs were in an apron-y mood.  They remembered the apron I made for my dress form in It Hadn't a Thing to Wear.    I bought these two patterns for teeny aprons a few months ago, and the pigs dragged them out and left them on my work table.  Hint, hint.

They dug up some notions they liked...

... and pointed out the fabrics they wanted.

 

These are the little aprons I made this week.  I think I could have made big aprons in less time!  Gosh, these little things are very fiddly.  The one in the center was the first one and took the most time.  It's fully lined.  The trim in the center is actually edging on a front bib (also fully lined) that is sewn to the skirt.  The pattern had the bottom of the bib and skirt lined up, but I liked it a little higher.

The one on the left is the second one I made.  It's not lined.  There are little pockets and a ribbon bib.  The pattern told me to make the bib out of fabric straps to which I was supposed to sew trim,  but I cheated and went right to the trim.  Both of these aprons are Simplicity 1957.

The teeniest one on the right is the one I made today.  It's my favorite so we're going to take a closer look at it.

This is Simplicity 2748.  I changed the pattern somewhat.  You're supposed to sew bias tape around all the edges to finish them.  I didn't have any 1/4" bias tape.  I did enough running around last week and wasn't in the mood to go shopping again so I made do with the trims I had in my stash.  

I cut an extra 1/4" around all the edges, then clipped the curves and pressed the 1/4" under.  Then I sewed on the baby rick rack and that finished the edges.  The bright blue on the lower right is one of two pockets.  For apron ties, I used some micro pom-pom trim to speed things up, instead of making a fabric tie.  The pattern had pleats on the front - stitching them is how you attach the ties.

You know how on some episodes of Project Runway the contestants have to make clothes for "real people" instead of models?  They usually hate doing that, because the "real people" don't have bodies that match their dress forms.  Well, the same principle applied here.  Luckily I have some really good natured pigs and they're more than happy to make do.

Judging from the way that one is sticking her foot into the oven (there's a rotisserie chicken in there - too cute!!), I might need to make some little pot holders for them.

I found this plate for them last week, too.