{"id":12490,"date":"2020-03-08T23:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T22:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12490"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:39:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:39:36","slug":"daily_1883_-_apron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/03\/08\/daily_1883_-_apron\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1883 – apron"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nEveryone in this household is now cooking or baking regularly. Alone among us, Adrian had no apron that fit him. <\/p>\n

Store-bought aprons aren’t quite one size fits all, but nearly: there are two sizes on the market instead of one. Kids’ aprons are sized for kids aged 4 to 6 or thereabouts, and the ones we had are now way too small for Adrian. Adult-sized ones are still way too large.<\/p>\n

What does one do? Make one, of course! <\/p>\n

I like easy sewing projects like this. No worrying about fit, just have fun. And it takes no more than a few hours to get done.<\/p>\n

Adrian made the design, I made it happen.
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\nHe had a very clear idea of what his apron should look like, with colourful appliques of fruit and vegetables (and an egg) and cooking utensils. Most of them he chose, I think, because they look cool – he doesn’t even really eat avocados – but the cucumber got pride of place because it is his favourite vegetable.<\/p>\n

We later replaced the orange with a carrot, because it’s hard to make an orange not look like an orange-coloured ball, and had to skip most of the utensils because we couldn’t fit them into the space we had. We switched from pink to blue because we couldn’t find a sturdy fabric in the kind of dusky pink he had in mind. But the final result is pretty close to the original design.<\/p>\n

Functionally, the apron has three tweaks that I wish all my aprons had as well.
\nOne: no pocket. I’ve never used any of the pockets on my aprons – all they do is get in the way and get dirty.
\nTwo: ties of generous length. Both Adrian and I like taking the ties all the way around the waist and tying the knot in the front.
\nThree: neck strap adjustable using snaps instead of rings. Non-adjustable neck straps suck; I’ve ended up tying ugly hard knots in some to make them fit. And D-rings always end up slipping. Watching Master Chef on TV, I noticed that they had snaps instead. Of course that’s the way to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone in this household is now cooking or baking regularly. Alone among us, Adrian had no apron that fit him. Store-bought aprons aren’t quite one size fits all, but nearly: there are two sizes on the market instead of one. Kids’ aprons are sized for kids aged 4 to 6 or thereabouts, and the ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,767,18,768,785],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12496,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions\/12496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}