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Across the Fence:  Fess up ...How many aprons do you have? =)  |
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
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 Posted - Jan 18 2010 : 07:51:19 AM
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That's so cool - especially that it is a family heirloom apron!! You will love wearing it.
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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Posted - Jan 18 2010 : 07:57:48 AM
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That is very sweet! Mend it and love it and wear it often =)
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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Yart
True Blue Farmgirl
143 Posts
MI
USA
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Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 07:17:03 AM
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| Siobhan, don't feel bad. I don't have one either. But I hope to rectify that this week. I bought patterns years ago to make one but never got around to doing it. |
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Leelee
Farmgirl in Training
38 Posts
Wraylee
Diamond
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 4:38:08 PM
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Ah Aprons, is there anything better, really? I have around 50 vintage aprons. My most cherished is one that my husbands great grandma hand stitched and painted a parisole lady on. It's so incredibly dainty! Second fav would have to be one made from a flour sack from Lehi Roller Mills in Lehi Ut. Great topic, I could go on and on!
Feeling down? Saddle up!
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 5:19:38 PM
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Wraylee, where is Diamond, WA? I just got 4 aprons for Christmas and one of them was handmade by my grandma's aunt - it is so cool!! Love the old ones
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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Mikki
True Blue Farmgirl
1510 Posts
Mikki
Austin
Indiana
USA
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Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 5:31:08 PM
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I've never counted but probably around 15 to 20, I have some here of course and some at my cabin. And I've given some to my daughters. My two favorites are my Grandma's apron, and my Great Grandma's apron. I never got to meet my Great Grandmother, but I've learned a lot about her.
~~Blessings, Mikki Jo
"Courage is being scared to death... but saddling up anyway" ***John Wayne
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 5:41:42 PM
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Some of my fondest memories of my Mom and Grandma are visions of them in their aprons. I always loved them on them. But, I have to be honest and say I don't own a single one. I just don't look good in them. But, it doesn't stop me from admiring everyone elses!!
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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Leelee
Farmgirl in Training
38 Posts
Wraylee
Diamond
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 20 2010 : 08:48:45 AM
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Amy- Diamond is not far from you, actually! We are that little tiny town between the Palouse Empire Fairgrounds and Endicott on the Endicott HWY. We live outside of town, just above the Palouse River.
Feeling down? Saddle up!
www.quiltcropandcabbage.blogspot.com |
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MeadowCrone
True Blue Farmgirl
220 Posts
Bernadine
Island Park and Salem
ID
USA
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Posted - Jan 20 2010 : 09:14:00 AM
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I have never counted but my favorite is one my mother gave me for a birthday. She is very artistic and painted scenes from our farm on it. A rescued kitten, a lamb that we lost when it took off under a fence, horses stomped it to death, a nest of field mice in the hay and my favorite rooster. I lOVE that apron.
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - Jan 20 2010 : 5:53:11 PM
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Oh duh, I knew it sounded familiar Wraylee!! I have driven by the turnoff taking my son to baseball games. We should have a palouse get-together this spring maybe:)
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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Leelee
Farmgirl in Training
38 Posts
Wraylee
Diamond
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 21 2010 : 10:21:50 PM
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Amy- A Palouse get-together sounds great! I have a big grassy yard and am out in the country, be happy to host something if we could pull it together!! Spring may be teasing us but it's still a ways off.
Feeling down? Saddle up!
www.quiltcropandcabbage.blogspot.com |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3335 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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Posted - Jan 22 2010 : 11:40:23 PM
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You know...I don't have a single one! 
Not one!!
I know, I know...I am apron-challenged. First, my 2nd hand sewing machine took it's final bow about a year ago ( I had that lovely ton and a half masterpiece of a sewing machine for ions!!)and I haven't been able to find a real sturdy 'vintage' replacement. Second, I am not a very good seamstress and I envy all 'yall out there who are artists with a needle and thread! I have limited myself to doing embroidery, hand quilting, hemming curtains, redwork and the occasional replacement of a button now and again. But, ladies I just never acquired the knack of sewing with patterns, etc. I attribute it to my former high school home ec teacher! She told me once I had a "lead foot!" Must have traumatized me! 
I do love spying a vintage apron at rummage sales and at the Goodwill, but I have never bought one. Sniff!
Sad, but true...
Melody
Farmgirl #525
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Fess up ...How many aprons do you have? =)
