Vintage Is as Vintage Does

A few months ago I purchased a fantastic vintage apron pattern. I realized had some pretty lemons print fabric that seemed fitting, so it was time to give it a spin. It would do a grave injustice to the pattern to make the apron on my fancy Babylock machine, so I pulled out my mom's old 70's Sears Kenmore machine that was given to me a few years ago and decided I needed to give it a go.




The machine is a beast. It took me no less than an hour to figure out how to thread it. Another 20 minutes to figure out how the little plastic jobbys change the stitch, and another 20 to get the tension right. Once that was done, I got to sewing.

I've learned that patterns of yesteryear assume a pretty high level of sewing knowledge. There are terms I've never heard of and relied pretty heavily on YouTube videos to figure out some of the techniques. But when all was said and done, I made me a purty apron! Here it is...never mind that the fabric is technically upside down. It's right-side-up when *I* look at it from above. ;-)