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KayB
True Blue Farmgirl
540 Posts
Kay
Del City
Oklahoma
USA
540 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 06:39:16 AM
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My hubby sent me this e-mail this morning and I had to pass it on. I am in the middle of making Jonnie's apron for the Halloween apron swap. It had a couple of pictures of apron patterns, but I couldn't get them to copy over.
Enoy!!
KayB
'Tis sweet!
REMEMBER making an apron in Home Ec?
The
History of 'APRONS'
I don't
think our kids know what an apron
is....
The principal use of Grandma's apron
was to protect
the dress underneath, because she only had a
few. It was easier to wash aprons than dresses
and they used less material, but along with
that, it served as a potholder
for
removing
hot pans from the oven.
It was
wonderful for drying children's tears, and on
occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty
ears..
From the
chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying
eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched
eggs to be finished in the warming
oven.
When
company came, those aprons were ideal hiding
places for shy kids.
And when
the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around
her arms.
Those big
old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent
over the hot wood stove.
Chips and
kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in
that apron.
From the
garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.
After the peas had been shelled, it carried out
the hulls.
In the
fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that
had fallen from the trees.
When
unexpected company drove up the road, it was
surprising how much furniture that old apron
could dust in a matter of
seconds.
When
dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the
porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was
time to come in from the fields to
dinner.
It will be
a long time before someone invents something
that will replace that 'old-time apron' that
served so many purposes.
Send this
to those who would know (and love) the story
about Grandma's aprons.
REMEMBER:
Grandma
used to set her hot baked apple pies on the
window sill to cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on
the window sill to
thaw.
They would
go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs
was on that apron.
I don't
think I ever caught anything from an
apron.
Life's a dance you learn as you go |
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
1406 Posts |
Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 06:54:29 AM
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Some one gave me that poem with the Apron Book, I love it. I can remember my grandmother putting a clean apron on over the dirty one if some one came to the door. I cannot cook with out an apron on!
how sweet it is to love some one, how right itis to care |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13664 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13664 Posts |
Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 5:23:10 PM
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Kay,
Thanks for sharing The Apron poem. I make a LOT of aprons, of every description.
It's fun to have the poem! 
THANKS AGAIN!
CJ
...from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado |
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The Apron
