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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
    
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Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
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Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 2:56:08 PM
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A lady at a festival gave me the fabric I used for this, and I held it and touched it and looked at it for weeks before I oculd figure out what it was suppose to be. It's my own simple pattern and I used a vintage ivory lace trim on the top, the pockets and the skirt hem. I also used a brown lace-not vintage-for the neck tie.


and outside by my kitchen garden....see my Lazy Housewife beans.....they are humungous!!! and they just keep growning and growing ad infinitum.

Ill have another to post later or tomorrow that I used a vintage pattern to make. Again, I touched and looked at this fabric for eons....I think I got it about a year ago...and it pained me and I truly cried when I cut the fabric.....ask Rob, he'll verify because he laughed at me....OY!
"I would not interfere with any creed of yours or want to appear that I have all the cures. There is so much to know...so many things are true. The way my feet must go may not be best for you. And so I give this spark of what is light to me, to guide you through the dark, but not tell you what you must see." -Author Unknown
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth." — Blaise Pascal
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
    
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 3:06:42 PM
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Tasha- Your apron is darling and you look adorable in it!! It was well worth the wait. :) I can totally relate to your hesitation to cut that fabric! I have some that has been in storage for years and I still can't bear to cut it. Maybe someday..... Karin |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
    
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 3:09:29 PM
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I love it! You did such a good job! I do that with fabric sometimes too. I am really bad about buying 2 yards of a fabric that I just love and then just "having" it for the longest time.
Jenny in Utah Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
    
9094 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9094 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 3:27:22 PM
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Tasha You and your apron are very cute,and I don't think your beans are lazy!! NANCY JO |
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
    
4877 Posts
Wendy
Utah
USA
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suzyhomemaker
True Blue Farmgirl
    
806 Posts
Clare
Tyler Hill
PA
USA
806 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 3:32:27 PM
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I love that you made the apron from a pattern you devised yourself. You look very pretty in it. I have lots of fabric I just pull out and look at and still wonder what to be made with it. :-) Congratualtions on amking the jump and cutting it!
Country girl in NE PA |
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sewgirlie
True Blue Farmgirl
    
1894 Posts
Sheryl-lyn
Calverton
NY
USA
1894 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 3:55:19 PM
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Loved the apron and the pictures. I am working on a few aprons myself lately and am planning to cut some gorgeous fabric this very night. Hopefully it won't hurt. I got a few patterns to use, but to be honest, the pattern thing is not a big draw for me these days. I'd rather make my own pattern and just cut away. That flimsy paper and the cutting of it really gets me. Maybe I won't bother with the pattern. I made all of my daughter's clothes without them for a thousand years, so why I am even considering a pattern is a mystery to me. Let you know tomorrow what I ended up doing. You are so cute in your beautiful apron! |
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
   
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 4:17:03 PM
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TASHA,great photo! love your apron and your garden wow! looks like you had a good summer.(im sure you had a lot to do with it,lol)I too have a LOT of different fabric and i cant even sew! but my machine is out in clear view and we got this mind game going ,lol i will figure it out yet.any advice from you all that sew?randi |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
    
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 4:37:18 PM
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Love the apron - love the beans, and love the photos! You look so happy and pretty. Thanks for sending them to us!
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
    
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 4:40:13 PM
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Absolutely beautiful! And your garden is awesome!
I know what you mean about cutting into the fabric - it is like, it had all this potential, and once you actually decide what to make with it, all the other opportunities are lost....
I think that is why knitters and sewing people always seem to have yarn or fabric stashes - they are storing up potential!
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2 Visit my blog at http://brightmeadowfarms.blogspot.com ,web site store at http://www.watkinsonline.com/fish or my homepage at http://home.earthlink.net/~brightmeadow |
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berries
True Blue Farmgirl
   
475 Posts
gloria g
Florida
USA
475 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 5:05:37 PM
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How adorable! You are darling, and love the pictures. It is true, a picture does say a thousand words! Looks like you have a great garden! Wish I had some of those beans! I don't eat meat. I can eat things right out of the garden! Beans, okra, tomatoes it doesn't matter! Keep up the good work!
farmgirl hugs, gloria g. Richards, TX
strawberry fields forever and ever! |
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mommom
True Blue Farmgirl
    
854 Posts
Susan
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
USA
854 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 5:10:51 PM
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You look beautiful in your beautiful apron! Thank you for sharing! Susan |
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frannie
True Blue Farmgirl
    
2246 Posts
fran
bonham
texas
USA
2246 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 6:17:45 PM
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good work, i love your apron and can understand why you didnt want to cut the fabric. i think sunshine is right we all have those pieces that we love so much we just hesitate to put the scissors to them....but i'm glad you did, it made a beautiful apron.
love fran
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Photobugs
True Blue Farmgirl
   
363 Posts
Pamela
Post Falls
Idaho
USA
363 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 9:32:39 PM
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It looks like you just stepped out of The Waltons...my favorite show. Great work. Pamela
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
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frannie
True Blue Farmgirl
    
2246 Posts
fran
bonham
texas
USA
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Posted - Sep 12 2006 : 05:25:29 AM
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pamela, my favorite show as well. my kids make fun of me cause they say i've seen every show several times. we dont currently get the waltons on our cable, but i hope they will bring it back so i can relive the whole thing all over again.
love fran
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ktknits
True Blue Farmgirl
    
582 Posts
Kathy
Northwest Indiana
USA
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Posted - Sep 12 2006 : 05:32:49 AM
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I love the apron--great job! Like several others, I too have fabric that I just can't seem to bring myself to cut. I never really even considered aprons until the last couple of months, but now I have plans buzzing all around in my little brain--If I only had the time!
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
    
1818 Posts
Katie
Illinois
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Posted - Sep 12 2006 : 05:35:39 AM
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Tasha -- So nice to see you in your apron and in your garden. You have a lovely aura. |
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sewgirlie
True Blue Farmgirl
    
1894 Posts
Sheryl-lyn
Calverton
NY
USA
1894 Posts |
Posted - Sep 12 2006 : 6:23:59 PM
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I have lived most of my adult life based on The Waltons!! You can get at least the first two seasons of the show on DVD. I have them both and watch them all the time. I imagine that most of us loved that show as kids...It would explain how we chose to live our lives at this time. My kids make fun of me too, but they also loved the life I created for them here at our farmhouse on the river. It was simple and honest. |
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
    
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
2552 Posts |
Posted - Sep 12 2006 : 6:32:37 PM
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I posted another apron I made a few months ago on my blog....
www.gaiarose.wordpress.com
"I would not interfere with any creed of yours or want to appear that I have all the cures. There is so much to know...so many things are true. The way my feet must go may not be best for you. And so I give this spark of what is light to me, to guide you through the dark, but not tell you what you must see." -Author Unknown
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth." — Blaise Pascal
*~*Birth is SAFE Interferance is RISKY. TRUST BIRTH*~*
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~ Tasha-Rose |
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daffodil dreamer
True Blue Farmgirl
    
805 Posts
Jayne
Hamilton
Victoria
Australia
805 Posts |
Posted - Sep 12 2006 : 8:57:35 PM
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Tasha, Love both your aprons! I love Sense and Sensibility patterns - have looked on the web at them heaps, but can't get them here in Oz. I am having an apron making frenzy at the moment - not sure why really, just seems to be so much fun seeing what comes out! Best wishes, Jayne |
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
    
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
2552 Posts |
Posted - Sep 12 2006 : 9:46:31 PM
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Jayne....
We ar ein the same boat...Rob pulled me away from one just tonight to play a game of Scrabble....lol I am now going to go work on it more at 11:42 pm!!!!!
"I would not interfere with any creed of yours or want to appear that I have all the cures. There is so much to know...so many things are true. The way my feet must go may not be best for you. And so I give this spark of what is light to me, to guide you through the dark, but not tell you what you must see." -Author Unknown
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth." — Blaise Pascal
*~*Birth is SAFE Interferance is RISKY. TRUST BIRTH*~*
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~ Tasha-Rose |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
    
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 13 2006 : 07:46:25 AM
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ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!! ... and so are YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xoxo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM KENTUCKY
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