DIY Unisex Apron

When you are in the kitchen, an apron is quite necessary to protect your chlothes from being dirty. Here I want to show you how to make a custom apron for both man and woman.


Supplies:
·1 1/4-yard fabric for the body of the apron
·3-yards Cotton Webbing
·100% Cotton Thread in color 7400 and 1040

Instructions:

1. Press the main body fabric in half lengthwise, selvedge to selvedge. Trim the top of the fabric so it makes a clean 90 degree angle with fold.

2. Using tailors chalk or an erasable fabric marker make a 1-inch vertical mark at the top of the fabric, 6 1/2-inches from the fold. This is mark A and is shown in red in the picture above.

3. Place a pin along the fold, 17-inches from the top of the fabric. This is mark B.

4. Make a mark using the chalk 13-inches from the fold and directly perpendicular to mark B. This is mark C.

5. Make a mark on the fold 20-inches below mark B. This is mark D.

6. Make a mark 20-inches vertically below mark C. This is mark E.

7. Using the chalk connect these marked lines together with straight lines, going from the bottom of mark A diagonally to mark C, then down to mark E and over to mark D.

8. Cut the apron out following along these lines. Here is a picture of it cut out but still folded down the middle.

9. Cut a 17-inch by 10-inch rectangle, with the stripes running horizontally for the pocket.

10. Unfold the main apron piece.

11. Using the darker thread hem the top and straight sides by folding them over 1/2-inch twice towards the wrong side and edge stitching the folds down.

12. Hem the bottom in the same manner.

13. Zig zag stitch along the diagonal sides.

14. Press the diagonal sides down 1/4-inch to the wrong side and edge stitch them down.

15. Press the diagonal sides down 1-inch to the wrong side and edge stitch them down. This will form a scant 1-inch channel along the diagonal sides that the cotton webbing will be threaded through later.

16. Cut the cotton webbing to be 97-inches long. Press the ends 1/2-inch to the wrong side twice.

17. Using the off white thread edge stitch these folds down.

18. Using a knitting needle or another long sharp opject pull one end of the webbing through the bottom left diagonal channel with the wrong side of the apron facing up.

19. When you reach the top of the apron turn pull the webbing out at the top and turn the apron to the right side. Being careful not to twist it thread the webbing into the opposite diagonal channel from the top, pulling it all the way through to the bottom of the channel.

20. Pull the webbing until both sides are equal.

All done! It seems quite difficult, but actually it doesn't. You need patience.