Great Apron swap

Look what Sarah, my lovely apron swappartner, made for me!!



The most lovely apron!!
It is so beautiful made and I love the fabrics she used,



And Sarah spoiled me with a lovely cloth with a typical New zealand recipe on it.



Dear Sarah I *L*O*V*E* it, thank you so much!!!
I loved beeing your swappartner!

This is the apron I made for Sarah, go over to her blog and look at her wearing it!



Now I'm of,



wearing my new apron and make lunch!


groetjes,

Blogging again

Hello again,
We had a two week vacation by the sea. It was great!
But now it's time to start catching up with blogging and I'm far behind reading all your lovely blogs, and please forgive me for not answering your comments.



We took our cat 'Bear' allong with us and he did great!
He is growing real fast and is being naughty and cute at the same time.



Today I finally have a little time to work on the apron swap!



Here is a little fabric peek....
My lovely swappartner is the hostess Sarah from Red Gingham

This is it for today,
I leave you with some fresh tulips and hope to be back with you in a few days!



Groetjes,

Project Improv

Today I was at a flea market and bought this magazine from 1963. A cover like this, who can resist it!



Dad is wearing mom's apron and is doing the dishes, while his two little girls wolk by giggling about their well behaving daddie. How things changed! (project improve? I hope)

But now, Project Improve,

I thought, peace of cake! make a block, leave the rules and improvise!
But I did not like my result... so I thought 'hup, het mes erin!'
I'll cut it in peaces.



Then I made an enormous mess...



let all boundaries go... and sew!





And that's what I did.

Have a good start of the week everyone,

Aprons,

I have been planning to make a post about aprons for a long time.
So now here it is!

The Dutch word for apron is, ‘schort’ and just today I discovered another old Dutch word, ‘boezelaar’.



When I think back in time, my grandmothers both wore aprons all the time except on Sunday and in the evenings. When my grand mother died I always kept one apron as a sweet memory to her.

Than there is this sweetie,



I always thought it was mine, but no, it's from my sister. She got it for her birthday when she was 4. We treasure it!

And this morning I was going through some old books in search for aprons.
In this book, from 1924, I found the new (old) word, "Boezelaar".





"apron for the servant" and "Reform apron" (1924)







And this week I finished restyling these two aprons for children.





We put one in the shop.

Well I'm off now to my mothers attic.... she just called, she has some old aprons...

Have a great day,