tie one on

vote for aprons--

 

Burda Style, which I huge amounts of love for, had a great apron making challenge a bit back and 50 talented sewers were chosen—vote to help select a winner! See the slide show and vote here! (until march 31, 2010)

The Black & White gallery is up!

 

The Gallery is up and we had over 50 Black & White aprons this time—outstanding! Look at this lovely one from Mandy. So cool. They are so lovely and elegant, I can tell you all had fun with this theme. Thanks you guys. Please leave comments on the submissions and visit the blog links.

A few friendly reminders for any of you who are new to this challenge (No worries on any of this, I don't want you all to stress out, okay?):

• Please send the actual jpegs (no more than 2) in a e-mail, as opposed to a link. It has to be a jpeg, not a tiff. or a gif. Fickr can't upload anything but jpegs.
• If you don't see your apron, please e-mail me It's never an intentional omission. Sometimes with galleries this big—they just get lost in the shuffle, so don't hesitate to contact me. This goes for broken blog links as well. Just let me know.
• I can't link to shops selling aprons from Flickr with your submissions. This is a rule of Flickr's and if I do, my account can get shut down. So, if you send me a blog link, I can link to that, but not to a etsy shop or a website selling the aprons. Just so you know, if you don't see your shop listed, that's why.

Okay--thanks again so much. And Makingtime is the randomly chosen lucky winner of the book giveaway this time. Congrats! Please send me your addy when you can.

New Apron Theme-Alice

 

I thought it would be fun to tackle an iconic apron for this next theme—Alice in Wonderland.

  

You can't really see the apron/pinafore here, but I love her facial expression in this tea party illustration so much—I had to show it anyway.

  

Here's another version. Very nice shoulder and pocket detail on this apron.

Of course you can interpret this apron how ever you wish, but I would like to suggest that the apron be:

1. white, or some approximation of white
2. in a pinafore/full apron style, if you are up for that

That means there is a bib and skirt attached. If you want to go with just a half apron, that's okay, but pinafores/full apron are very fun to do, so if you haven't done one, this would be a great time to try. Feel free to link to patterns you all might have to use in the comments. A vintage style pattern, either actual vintage or a reproduction, in white would look lovely. And please have fun with the details! I don't want you all to be bored by this. It has a ton of creative potential.

Please send me a jpeg (with your blog link if you have one and any other info you want me to add) by May 1st.

I have no idea if an apron makes an appearance on Alice in Tim Burton's upcoming film, but I will be seeing it probably the day it opens, nonetheless.

And thank you for all the Black and White aprons! I am starting on the gallery now and will have it up (and announce the lucky random winner of the book giveaway) later in the week. Thank you all so much!!