Castle Keepers September Meeting ~ Aprons

Meeting once a month, our first girls club of homemakers in training (now called Castle Keepers) was to learn how to make aprons using an existing apron as the pattern. 

One of the mothers of the 9 girls in the club taught us how to trace around the apron adding ½ to 1 inch bigger for the seam using a hem gauge. I’ve had this awesome little tool around for YEARS but never knew what it was for. So glad I know now, as this will come in handy. Don’t you just love tools and gadgets?

I really enjoyed seeing the diversity of each girl’s creativity. The variety of colors, the different shaped aprons, some lined and some not, some with bias edges etc.

To keep our energy (and patience) fueled up, our hostesses served us a simple but delicious lunch and gave each girl a sewn bag filled with dried apples and a little book mark. 

I had suggested that the girls then go home and make another apron on their own to help cement the skill they had just learned. Here are some of the beautiful creations they we came up with and brought to October's meeting:

Aren't they just darling?