I’ve had this poem saved in my inbox for a while now. It was actually kind of lost until I started deleting all my built up e-mails. I thought it was pretty cute.
I don’t think our kids know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.It was wonderful for drying children’s tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ‘old-time apron’ that served so many purposes.
This poem also gave me an idea! For the next several Tuesdays I am going to share with you some of the aprons in my collection as well as tutorials on how to sew them yourself. I’ve got ruffly ones, standard run-of-the-mill ones, pretty ‘vintagey’ ones, full aprons, half aprons, etc. We’ll start off easy and get progressively harder (at least sewing wise).
Come back next Tuesday for the first tutorial!
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I am so excited! I LOVE making aprons, and I have some fabric just waiting to be made into something pretty!
Sounds wonderful! I’m looking forward to it! 🙂
I totally think we should bring the apron back. I’ve been wanting to make some aprons for a long time. Can’t wait for your tutorials.
I’m going to share this on my blog.
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Rachael
Oh dear, now I need to go grab some fabric! 🙂
I love me an apron. The two I have of your design are my favorite, but I have a few more…wonder if Dh would think me crazy if I added a few more??!
Looking forward to creating a few along with you!
Perfect timing! I am wanting to make some aprons right away! I’ve been realizing that I’m ruining all my best clothes with grease stains and the like and that I need to take better care of them with a cute apron to cover them up.
I’ve been wanting to make a new apron, but haven’t found a super great pattern. I’m so excited!
I am a total apron wearer. I’m sure I inherited that from my grandma. She made the best no tie aprons… just slip your arms through and over your head. They are awesome. After she pasted away, I kept on that we found in her things for my daughter who is her name sake.
I can’t wait!
Humorously, I’ve always wanted to sew my own apron, but am too stingy to waste new fabric on something that will end up very dirty and stained. That’s assuming my current apron is the standard. I did take my current apron apart and create new straps. I hate having anything hang around my neck, so I attached one long strap from each side at the neck, then used D rings at the waist. I X-cross the straps in the back, slip them through the rings and then tie in the front. No band hanging on my neck! Awesome. And, yes, I really do need to just make a new one for myself.