A Patriotic Apron

So the Young Women (ages 12-18) in our congregation are holding a spaghetti dinner and silent auction this week to earn money to go to camp this summer.  They sent around a sign up to see what people could donate and I wrote down 'something I have sewn.'  I didn't feel very good at the time and I wasn't sewing much of anything.  I had some stuff leftover from the craft fair that I could donate if I didn't get around to making something.  So this week (a few weeks after signing up) I decided that since we would not be donating to the spaghetti dinner portion (since I can't eat it and my husband doesn't care) then I really wanted to make something nice; I just had to find the energy to do it.  So I was thinking of projects that I already had fabric for and that were fast and not complicated: I decided to make an apron. 

Finding the fabric was the hard part since I don't know where half my fabric is (that's not true, it's just in boxes and I don't know which piece of fabric is where).  I decided to turn to my patriotic fabrics first because I love holiday themed things and summer time is a perfect time to be patriotic.  Luckily, I had enough fabric that I could whip this baby out in two days. 

The world's cutest patriotic apron (if I do say so myself).  I realized as I was making the ruffle that adding it to the apron took away half of my audience for the auction since I can't imagine a man purposefully wearing an apron with a ruffle.  I put it on anyway because it wouldn't have been as cute without it.  Hopefully there is some woman who is patriotic and loves cute aprons that comes to the dinner and auction. 

A close up of the fabrics.