Sew An Apron For A Holiday Hostess

Meg made an adorable holiday apron using designs from Creative Machine Embroidery’s Cross Stitch Christmas collection and the Internet Embroidery Club’s Retro Christmas collection. See how she did it!

Meg’s Christmas Apron

I was inspired to create these holiday aprons when I saw the Retro Christmas design collection and thought it would be a perfect pairing with an apron for the holidays. As this is the only time of year I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, and I don’t want to mess up my party outfit while I’m prepping! They also make a quick and easy (and personalized) early gift for friends and family.

I used the BurdaStyle Apron 012012 pattern because I love the shape. This is an old pattern, though, so I recommend our Retro Apron pattern. You can curve the bottom to make it look more like my version. I found some holiday-printed cotton that I thought was perfect!

For the embroidery, I chose to use the girl from the Retro Christmas Embroidery Collection. I hooped and embroidered the fabric before cutting out my apron so I could make sure the design was centered and right where I wanted it.

For the pockets, I hooped some more fabric and embroidered one of CME’s cross-stitch snowflakes, and then cut the pocket pieces over top to make sure they were centered.

The construction of the apron is quite simple! I first serge-finished around all the edges, pressed the allowance to the wrong side, and topstitched in place. Then for the straps and tie bands, I cut long strips of fabric 3″ wide and serge-finished one edge, pressed in thirds, and then topstitched down the center of each strip. I pressed down the top points on the straps so they were the same width as my sewn strips, then stitched them in place. I aligned the sidebands with the pattern marking and topstitched in place.

The pockets were easy to construct, as I first serge-finished the top edge, pressed to the wrong side, and topstitched in place. Then I pressed the outer curved edges towards the wrong side about 1/4″ and edgestitched in place on the apron pocket placement lines.

Then ta-da! You have yourself an apron. I love this one and how the embroidery really pops.