Plastic Potato Bag Apron!

Some of my jobs involve doing quite a few dishes. Industrial amounts of dishes.

And being a bit shorter than the average person means that I have to lean practically into the sink in order to wash all these dishes. This leads to getting a wet waistband that ends up rubbing on my tummy and being uncomfortable.

I thought about this and decided that what I needed a plastic apron.

I went to the shops to look for a $2 Apron and discovered that they didn't exist. I could find kid size ones for $10-15, but they don't make plastic aprons in my size.

So I decided to make one. I looked at those $2 plastic table cloths to make myself an apron out of but thought they may be a bit flimsy. Then I remembered I had some really cool plastic potato sacks from another job...

And so decided to have a go at making a very basic apron from them! 

Here's what I did...

Found a selection of plastic potato and chook food sacks...

I cut one bag open to make it as wide as it would go and on a low iron, ironed out the creases

Then I layed out a an apron that was almost big enough and arranged the potato sacks to make an apron that was bigger - and then pinned it all in place.

One sack is opened right up and the other is still a tube - giving me three layers on my waist area... That should keep me dry!

I sewed the whole sack to the opened up sack with a double zig zag stitch across the waist/bust area.

I pinned a ribbon on for a neck and and pinned in a couple of darts for fitting around my bust...

Sewed it all on.

Sewed on a couple of waist ties...

And voila! One cheap and easy plastic apron!

And there it is - being modelled by yours truly!

Score card:

Green-ness: 5/5 Very green to re purpose something that would have gone into landfill!

Frugal-ness: 5/5 Was free as I used left over bits and bobs that were lying around.

Time cost: About 1/2 an hour

Skill level: Fairly basic sewing skills
Fun -ness: Great fun and I get lots of comments every time I wear it!