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Get Your Craft On! MAY

1. first, you need a shoe box, so you know, you need to buy new shoes.

2. so now, you have a box: 

3. which you cover in one paper, and then add paper flowers. I will use mine to store ribbons and stuff in my craft room.

Get Your Craft On! APRIL

so Aprons…… Mine is a smock-style made with a vintage pillow case and Dumpling’s is a sort of retro house-wife cut made with the front half of an A-line skirt I didn’t wear anymore. For both, I did a flickr search for retro aprons, found some I liked and pretty much made it up formthere. I find that having the mannequins really helps. I took nots on how the Project Runway people pin ribbon to the mannequins to figure out the shapes of their pieces and that’s how I figured out my armholes, neckbands, etc.

Here they are, step by step, in pictures.

Hints for #2

a pillow case

trim from the estate sale box

a picture of a retro pattern found on flikr….

April GYCO Preview

Here’s all I’ll say:

I’m still repurposing, recycling, as per last month’s GYCO.

It clearly said Aprons. Plural.