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.
Fun -ness: Great fun and I get lots of comments every time I wear it!
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 skillsFun -ness: Great fun and I get lots of comments every time I wear it!
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The Tour de Fleece is run in conjunction with the Tour de France. We spin when they race. It's headquartered on Ravelry here: http://www.ravelry.com/groups/tour-de-fleece
The spinning wheels have treadles which are like pedals, so it's sort of the same thing. ;-)