quilty you lifti is brought to you by a pqs handcrafted quilting machines are a film our affiliate aliens read perfectly suited for all your quilting projects baby lock for the love of sewing hovels sewing when you need to cut it close choose hobbles mota make something quilting with Moda fabrics hi everybody welcome to quilty and welcome back Erika Malvina thanks we are really glad that you're back because the last time is that you've been here it was like great fun you really know what you're doing I hope you're if you don't you're fooling everyone Oh grave eautifully and today so in the september october 2013 issue of quilting magazine we're gonna have some beautiful aprons made by mismo bina and mrs. ma baina right yes mrs. yeah um and the show is very special do not flip that dial do not click that Mouse because we have part of part of your big collection of vintage aprons on the show today right in honor of this show I wore my grandmother's apron tada i cooking this apron just like grandma cooked in this apron let's get to the ones that you have tell me why you collect these show me the ones that you brought awesome umm I collect aprons mostly from the early 20th century late 1930s through the 1950s kay and what interests me about these aprons is that these women were hand making these aprons they were very resourceful with the fabrics using bits and pieces to make these items that were not decorative or fanciful but actually to use absolutely and so this apron is one of my favorites it has two different fabrics and this print with the checks is actually a feed sack fabric you find that a lot you'll find tea towels and aprons like that with with a feed sack right but this other fabric is more finely woven cotton so this apron making maker paired these two fabrics together and if you look closely at the band right down here so they get into it sort of this way sure you'll see how this apron maker had to piece together little pieces of the screen in order to have enough to make this apron work I mean that is like sewing out of necessity city making it work she that was scraps that is unbelievable mm-hmm I mean we just we don't really often some of us don't have to do that these days cuz there's so much fabric and right you know we get so lucky getting grabbed some friends yeah it's amazing but lovingly made for everyday use absolutely how about this beauty here now these these are interesting because um I've been collecting aprons for a long time but I have only been quilting for short so these are patchwork which when I was collecting these I just thought they were interesting because I like the different fabrics but now that I'm into quilting I realized that this has something to do with quilting so do you recognize these wedges I do they're very on trend right now yes so this apron maker used these wedges on the bottom of the apron look at the little pocket it's darling just with some white muslin and the one interesting thing about these patchwork aprons and it's probably the same in quilting is that it's hard to date because these women save these scraps and would I make these aprons some of these scraps are probably very old and some ones are probably not as old sure maybe you're getting some from the 50s and some from the 40s and so on yeah this one is like they just keep getting cooler how many aprons did you say you had I probably have over 75 at home awesome so you don't know my husband don't show him this video some women love shoes I love aprons very cool um this is great this is great and I have several that are made from squares and you will recognize this is probably leftover squares from a quilt and this apron maker used them for this little half apron look at the little pocket here made from half a square and the interesting thing about this one is I'm the apron maker has at all even going across but you get to the bottom and there's one two and you would expect to see a third one and there's that there's not and you know what I have to say it looks like maybe it was kind of a mistake but it works it's great I mean I'm not sure it that she because she could have exactly this one is really really cool yes this is one of my favorites now this this is squares also and I love the way that this apron maker has carefully laid out the square yes and fussy cut these fruits yep there's a very distinct pattern she's got the pinks yes the blues very specific used a little bit of this fabric for the top and and then the band you don't actually see this fabric in there but it totally works with the colors so very very creative the last apron that we have from your collection before we talk about the ones that we're featuring in them this one's like mayhem yes it is it's like yeah it's crazy this this is um it's all kinds of colors all kinds of prints and all thrown together but it works it does I feel like this woman she was making this and an also cooking soup and her little boy was out playing like cowboys and Indians and then like watching Howdy Doody right like that's like I see that that's what's happening in this apron and it's a great shape to mind yeah yeah let's take a peek at what's going on I should talk about their sewing skills right because there's a myth I think among the new you know if you're just beginning that's like Oh everybody who has ever sewn in this planet is better than me you know what these ladies they didn't know what there's it's kind of a mess yeah so interestingly enough and because I'm new to quilting I'm very particular about okay this is the way that I cut carefully in when I press my seams these go this way let's go this way it matches up but on these aprons twisted seams all over the place twists it seems all over the place none of these patchwork aprons are finished on the back that's crazy it's crazy to me well yours are really lovely and we're gonna show three of these and we're also going to talk specifically before we go about how you did the the ties okay so this is something that you this is vintage fabric right that someone sent to you yes I one of the bloggers that I follow and she follows me sent me a box of vintage things and these what do you call these design that's a dress did play Dresden right am i right oh goodness now I that was a pop eyes that's what I found pretty sure yeah well you'll hear about it if your be exact also these that these there was one finished and a couple half finished that was probably made by someone in her family and this is the apron that I put together from it and I think it is a Dresden Plate the only reason I paused because you can have a Dresden fan but that's a plate I'm pretty sure right because the fans just have okay we'll make sure my modern interpretation of a patchwork range so great yes and so I'm the interesting thing to Mary is that all you need for an apron is a rectangle and a piece to go across to tie it on your waist possibly the easiest project we will ever run in the magazine yeah really it is like the easiest okay here's our final example this is really really really cute yeah this is mine I don't know this one was was inspired by those other patchwork aprons that I showed yeah only for me I wanted to be able to UM see the fabrics a little bit better so I just did it with white and did a little extra yep up here I love and I will tell you that the one thing I did differently than those other women is when I was sewing this patchwork pressing it carefully yeah right I topped stitched so that when I would ease and wash them they're not gonna come that is is that is that the technical term that what it is yeah I think I think it is well I have to write that in motion graphics copy I'm not sure I'm gonna do that okay great there are beautiful in the pattern of course for for these will be in the magazine but let's take a look a little closer before we go about how how you shouldna tie here this is an example so this is you're playing the body of the apron which is pretty much can be anything I was just experimenting with some improvisational patchwork put some white about it sure around it very British put some white about it you need to finish the edges of the body of the aprons you can either turn them under I acted like I was binding just like a quilter can kind of see that here and for the band you can really make it it's the part that ties it around your face right you can make it any thickness that you want and any length you want I like to have mine super long so I can wrap them around and tie them so I just it's like double fold only I'm cutting straight grain you're gonna cut these on the bias because when you tie them you're going to be pulling it yeah it's more stable if it's straight on grain absolutely it would be too stretchy right so then you know you just sew it um right side to the top of the apron fold it over and I just my method is then just to top stitch all the way around the whole thing great gosh would you would you would you yeah again Erica this is awesome Wow I'm glad you like it I really really do I really really like it and I think the viewers will also really really like it and sometime I want to come see the rest of the aprons I really I mean great I would love it cool nice let's go cook something all right you too see you later quilty is brought to you by a pqs handcrafted quilting machines our film our affiliate aliens bread perfectly suited for all your quilting projects baby lock for the love of selling hovels sewing when you need to cut it close choose hobbles mota make something quilting with Moda fabrics quilty