{"id":4901,"date":"2010-03-24T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2016-06-16T19:46:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T02:46:58","slug":"aprons-doing-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/aprons-doing-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Aprons Doing Good"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Apron<\/a>
Apron Front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jennifer at CraftSanity<\/a> is running in a race for charity in May. She is part of a special training group called the Road Warriors. The Road Warrior team members get training mentors, have a blog<\/a> and train together. She has been paired with a domestic violence shelter<\/a>. In order to be part of the Road Warrior team, she needs to raise a certain amount of money for a charity. Instead of going door to door to gather donations, Jenifer is organizing an apron exhibit<\/a>. To do that she needs aprons. I decided to make and send her one.<\/p>\n

\"Apron<\/a>
Apron Right (Tarty view)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had listened to the Patchwork and Pacifiers<\/a> podcast just before listening to Jennifer’s newest CraftSanity podcast that mentioned the apron contest. The P&P podcast is one to which I just started to listen. On that day, I heard Jennifer Ruvalcaba (P&: host) briefly<\/em> mention a petal skirt her daughter had. Then, when Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood (too many Jennifers doing podcasts??) mentioned the apron contest an image formed in my mind.\u00a0 Then<\/em>, I was looking the\u00a0One Yard Wonders<\/a> book. That combined with the various other sensory inputs\u00a0and I was off and running.<\/p>\n

The Kitschy Kitchen Apron from One Yard Wonders was a big help with sizing and length of the straps. I had a good time working on it as well, though I found it to be quite a solitary endeavor.<\/p>\n

\"Apron<\/a>
Apron Front (Supermodel view)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the requirements of the exhibit is to add a piece of tie fabric to the apron. I wanted to put a flower made from the tie fabric on the apron, so I had to go and find a pattern, which, through the power of the ‘craft’ web, I was able to do quite easily. I found a site, Tip Junkie, which had a number of different patterns<\/a>. I ended up using Pink Paper Peppermints Rounded Petal Fabric Flower pattern<\/a> to make my flower. The tie fabric frayed quite a bit, so it wasn’t a particularly fun process, but I learned how to make fabric flowers. I could have used Fray Check, but I was afraid it would stain the fabric.<\/p>\n

\"Apron<\/a>
Apron Side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent most of the weekend working on the apron. I had actually been thinking about making one for awhile for no particular reason.. This was the perfect opportunity. It isn’t a quilt, but it may have gotten that particular wish out of my system.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take pictures of all the steps. It just didn’t seem right. I feel good making the things I have for charity lately. I feel like I am doing some good in some small way. I hope you will join in and send an apron to Jennifer at CraftSanity as well. If you can’t make an apron read the post<\/a> to find out other ways to help.<\/p>\n

\"Apron<\/a>
Apron Bow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer at CraftSanity is running in a race for charity in May. She is part of a special training group called the Road Warriors. The Road Warrior team members get training mentors, have a blog and train together. She has been paired with a domestic violence shelter. In order to be part of the Road … Continue reading “Aprons Doing Good”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[390],"tags":[288,355,391,314,277,86,330,337],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-apron","tag-doing-good","tag-events","tag-exhibits","tag-garment-sewing","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-other-artists","tag-quilt-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}