Last week I looked at the school calendar, and saw that my daughter needed an apron and scarf for her head. Today is cookie baking at school, in anticipation of the summer festival there on Friday.
In this heat and humidity, all I could think about was double gauze. As luck would have it, the first fabric she picked out was “the frog one”, from Far Far Away by Heather Ross. The pattern is from a free tutorial at Sew Liberated, and the pattern for the scarf is from this handy book of patterns for making all sorts of school-related goods that the Japanese children need in abundance.
The sun was out this morning, which would have made for a pleasant walk to school, had it not somehow started to rain when we were halfway there. Now the sun is back, fighting its way through the clouds. Time to go outside and cheer it on.
9 responses so far ↓
Liane // July 7, 2009 at 8:22 am |
Your daughter is the cutest thing ever! Looks like she loves the apron and scarf. I need to go find that book…
Holly // July 7, 2009 at 4:02 pm |
What a cute picture! Don’t you love it when that happens? I know about this pattern and like how the child can put it on themselves. I will have to try it.
I wanted to ask you about buying fabric. I have only bought as needed but it seems you buy ahead of time not necessarily for a specific project. If you do this, how much do you buy? It seems many children’s clothes use about 1.5-2 yards, yes? Then for 2 daughters that would be about 3-4 yards! Do you buy this much at a time? Thanks.
movinghands // July 7, 2009 at 8:33 pm |
Thanks for the question, Holly! I would say that I buy fabric not necessarily for a specific project about 75% of the time. Perhaps I need to work on that. :-) With this fabric, and the Heather Ross with the unicorns that I posted about recently, I bought 1.5 meters of each. I had more than enough to make the unicorn shirt, and to make the apron and scarf here. I am always happy to have extra left over to use for matching accessories or other projects. Two meters is usually my maximum, because even when I feel like making something for both girls, I will pick coordinating fabrics, but not a long cut of just one fabric. (Reason for me is that they can wear the same size clothing these days, so the more variety the better.)
Holly // July 7, 2009 at 10:55 pm |
Thanks, Moving Hands! This just opens the door to rampant fabric buying, you know.
Christine // July 8, 2009 at 10:12 pm |
That is so, so cute! Ah, I remember those yochien days (I assume she’s in yochien?).
Where did you get the Far Far Away fabric in Tokyo? I haven’t seen it.
Love the scarf, and hadn’t seen that book before, though I’ve seen others that are similar.
movinghands // July 8, 2009 at 10:32 pm |
I have only seen the Heather Ross fabric at Yuzawaya in Kichijoji. Yes, she is in youchien now, and just loves it.
Astrid // July 9, 2009 at 12:24 pm |
I totally love it – I’ve seen that tutorial too. I love the way it goes over the head without needing to be tied. Much easier for children, and I loooove Heather Ross’s fabric – I have a few waiting for me to come up with an idea… Your daughter is just beautiful! ;)
Little Munchkins // July 20, 2009 at 3:13 pm |
That is such a cute apron!
I just bought some Far Far Away fabric online today – can’t wait for it to arrive. DD picked the one she liked, one of the unicorn ones.
urban craft // August 15, 2009 at 3:36 am |
Aprons rule! A sweet one for a sweetie!