Aprons that make a mess!

Once I had been bitten by the creative bug, I decided that I simply must make children’s aprons. I rushed down to buy some fabric and whipped one up that afternoon, only to find that the cute quilters cotton I had bought was much too thin to make an effective apron. Not to be deterred, I rushed back to the shops and bought some bright red cotton to line the aprons. The first was such a success I whipped up three more before I found a fatal floor in my design. The cheap red fabric I had used as a backing runs like anything, and at breakfast Zoe’s Wheat Bix seeped through the apron and left red dye all over her clothes [oops!!]. Of course the obvious answer that everybody asks when I tell this story is ‘did you wash the fabric before you sewed with it?’, and of course the obvious answer is ‘no’! I’m not completely put off -I have bought better quality red fabric and will unpick the aprons I have done and sew them up again (after WASHING the fabric first and testing if it runs -of course!). Unfortunately for now the aprons are now in the ‘to do’ pile, which is a pity, because I could really use them right now!