Serviceable Apron for the Busy Housewife

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 462, 18 September 1928, Page 5

Serviceable Apron for the Busy Housewife

Make It Yourself [Written for THE SUS by

Jenny Hirsch.)

care of a household usually

impresses a housewife as nothing for poets to rave over! Yet there is nothing more comforting to a family than a well-ordered home. Any woman who achieves ' this knows that she is filling a good-sized job. But, like all “jobs,' it needs tools. A most essential one to the housewife is the apron, and one ot which she can never have too many. "YJATERIALS needed: 11 yard ot cretonne, cotton print or ginghams, 9 yards ot rick-rack braid, i button, sewing cotton to match. Cut a length of material 39 by 30 I incites. Fold this in half lengthwise. On a short edge mark a point 71' inches in from a long edge. Draw a line from this point to the opposite end of the long edge. Leaving the material double, cut on this line. Turn under all the edges, and sew rick-rack braid under them. Cut a 15-inch square, and in the same way finish three edges with the braid. QUT two 11-inch strips ol material 1% inch wide. Finish the long edges with the rick-rack braid. These are to be shoulder straps. Sew a short end ot one on to the shortest side of the largest piece of materia], placing it 2 inches from the long edge. Do likewise with the second strap.

the other short ends to that side of the square piece, that ts opposite the unfinished edge. Bind the latter with a strip of material 3 by 39 inches, start-

ing at a short end of the strip. Sew a button, here. Finish the edges ot this strip with rick-rack braid. This makes a belt, buttoned by means ol the button on the corner ot the back ot the apron. BUTTONHOLE is made in the end ot the strip. It pockets are wanted, make them as follows: Cut two 5-inch squares. Fold one in half, and, leaving it folded, cut from the end of the one folded side to the end of the fold on the opposite side, making a triangle. Do likewise with the second square. Edge them with braid, and sew them on to the apron. The length of the belt and of the straps may need adjusting according to the individual.