Kids Sweater Apron Tutorial
I don't get a lot of opportunity to thank all of you individually. Blogger makes near impossible to reply to comments — and, even if it was easy, I'd still be too short on time to keep up. I want all of you (commenters, bloggers, and lurkers) to know that I love what we have going here in crafty blogland. Thank you!
To reciprocate all this feel-goodness I've written up a Sweater Apron Tutorial over at Flickr.
You all should know that my five-year-old son came up with this idea. Sometimes I call him the Art Director. He has a lot of good ideas and likes to delegate them. ;) He saw a fulled sweater piece lying around, held it up to his body and said, "This would be a good apron." He was so right! At first, I thought a sweater might be weird as an apron, but, it's really a great fabric because of its absorbency. Kids are such wonderful free thinkers.
P.S. I'd love to see photos if you make a sweater apron.
P.P.S. I just googled "sweater apron" and, of course, Amy Karol already made one. ;)
22 Comments:
Oh my that is just brilliant and we need some aprons around here....I may need to buy a new sewing machine for my husband's upcoming birthday!!
That is a great idea and it looks great too!
Hi, I'm one of those lurkers you mention :)been reading your blog for months and love it. You're an inspiration to me and would like to link to you on my blog.
another fantastic use for fulled sweaters!
Sweet! Thanks man! [and of course amy already made one.. =)]
What a creative idea! Your son is very smart. Will have to try this one.
That is the cutest apron. Kudos to the art director and his loyal seamstress extraordonaire! A friend of mine knitted me that beehive hat years ago and I still think it is so funny. Just makes you happy to wear it.
The art director really came up with a great idea here! Clever and original I love it.
What a great idea! Your whole family has this streak of craft-brilliance, don't they? Lucky, lucky folks.
That's a great looking apron! Don't you love kid inspiration?!
Wow! Thanks. I have a HUGE pile of felted sweaters which I need to do something with.
Wheee! Fantastic! Fortunately for my to-do list, I don't feel the pull to make one of these, as the boys already have aprons made based on this tutorial here: http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/buildmodel/feature/famf0200clutterfree/famf0200clutterfree2.html
...minus the casing and beads, that is.
Blogger is sucky that way. I have some sweaters that I am itching to utilize, maybe I need to seek out your art director for advice.
Great idea and thanks for the tutorial.
Just wanted to share my love for this apron! Please tell your son that he is a wizard! I plan on trying my hand at making one this week and will share my results with you...(uh, that is if it's even half as cute as yours when all is said & done).
Thanks for the inspiration & tutorial!
I Love that fun idea! I have so many sweaters that need to be re-purposed...thanks!
Love this!!
I am so going to make one of these for my toddler. Thanks!
oh, this rocks so much!
very good idea!!....
Thanks so much for the tutorial! Here is how one of ours turned out:
http://mothersandothers.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/look-the-sweater-you-gave-to-goodwill/
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