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Amy, on her blog, provides quite a nice tutorial about how to create an apron from a vintage pillowcase.

The blog post provides 25 instructions with photos to help inspire sewers how to create their own apron.

Amy hows how she took a vintage pillow case, cut it up, and created an apron out of the pieces.

(image source: flickr)

In this interview, Amy Karol talks about her lifelong love of vintage clothing, including aprons, and how vintage designs and patterns have influenced her own sewing and writing. You can find more of Amy’s inspirational work on her website, amykarol.com, on her popular blog or on her Flickr vintage aprons group, which is a member of our Hall of Fame.

Amy Karol says this about herself:

I earned the title of ‘craft queen’ at the tender age of 3 or 4 from my art-loving mother. I grew up around quilters, writers and creative eccentrics in my immediate and extended family and am a very lucky girl with a lot of funny stories.

The interview is thorough and talks about sewing inspired by vintage clothing, vintage eras, Flickr photo groups, pattern collecting, ribbon and buttons, different styles of aprons, and more. Certainly a good read for anyone interested in apron patterns.

I bought this at a garage sale for fifty cents. I will be giving it to Pam Hall, my grad school adviser, as a thank you gift. She uses them in her artwork.

I think it will be a grand use for it, as the woman from whom I purchased it said that it belonged to her mother, and there is evidence that it was well used, as it has been mended.

Originally uploaded by klynslis to Flickr on 8th July, 2007.