image{s} of the week

Patchwork Apron

camera: Nikon D80
settings: f/4, 1/125 - with no adjustments! I love getting it right in the camera.
behind the lens: me

I've given up discretionary spending for Lent. (sigh.) So in lieu of purchasing fabric for a discretionary project, I've made a patchwork apron following instructions from Rashida Coleman-Hale's I Love Patchwork using left over fabric from Addyson's teething blanket.

Something bugged me about my apron while I was taking pictures. I ran through everything I saw wrong with my sewing - the gathers weren't my best work, the edge stitching left a lot to be desired, etc. - but that wasn't it.

Then I realized my apron was  annoying me because it was too clean. No apron is ever that clean. It's like going over to someone's house where a bunch of decorative, unlit candles have been perched all over.  The virgin wicks are white and pristine and this makes me uneasy. If you're going to buy candles you should light them, enjoy them, use them. An apron is similar in that way.

 Ah, flour. It's beginning to look normal...