Upload
others
View
2
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
1907 #32 Tablier Jardiniere -- Gardener’s Style Apron
This pretty model is made from a single piece. One needs a piece of fabric having 50
centimeters by 30 centimeters.
Trace a copy of the drawing that we give here in half, and transfer this copy on the
fabric folded in two. Draw the scallops; then transfer the copy on the other side of the
rectangle, taking care to make the two scallops of the middle align.
Pad the scallops and buttonhole stitch: only after which will one cut out the scallops,
one will make the two buttonholes, and one will place the two buttons. The apron is
finished. It is extremely nice, it is washed and ironed very easily. The two sketches of
the garment show the apron back and the apron front.
By enlarging it proportionally, you will be able to make this apron for a little brother
or a little sister.
To enlarge proportionally, it is necessary to keep the same difference between the
width and the length. Thus, here is an apron for Bleuette being 22 centimeters high by 16
centimeters wide (from underneath the arm to the other in front); you need to make an
apron being 33 centimeters high, that would make it a third more in this height; it would
be necessary to also put a third more in the width. -- What is a third of 16? It is 5 thirds.
So, this apron of 33 centimeters height will have 21 centimeters a third wider.
You can also replace the circumference of the scallops with a small hem and decorate
the apron with a flounce lightly gathered, trimmed with embroidery or lace. This flounce
will be decreasing in height along the shoulders. The part forming the neckline in front
can remain scalloped or be trimmed with a small lace. In this case, you will be able to
choose, to make the apron, of flowered muslin or of woven embroidered lawn, which will
make a very pretty object. If, on the contrary, you made the model such as it is, it is best
to choose a coarse fancy linen or stiff pique. The scalloping will be easier to make and,
what’s more, you will be able to embroider in color.
Choose, for example, a shade color fast. One calls thus, you know no doubt, those
which do not release with soaping. The red and the pink are color fast: the mauve and the
blue pass more easily. When you have well soaped and rinsed the apron, it will be
necessary to let it soak for a few moments in slightly bluish water. This is essential to
obtain a beautiful white. And the apron of a little girl must be of a whiteness as
irreproachable as the moment that one put it on.
This model, very simple, is quite easy to iron. However, it offers a small difficulty
that we must learn to overcome. This will be useful to you later. When one irons
scallops, this last should not be crushed. However, if you stretch out your apron on
something hard or not soft enough, the iron will crush the scallops. To avoid this
flattening, you must furnish the table or ironing board with quite spongy wool material,
fustian, flannel, which the relief of the scallops will sink into without being crushed under
the pressure of the iron. It should be that any embroidery is only ironed thus, and only on
the wrong side. All the relief is thus found appearing as new. Since we are on this
subject, we finish it by saying that, to iron the linen well, one should not wait until it is
completely dry. One can smooth it well and gloss it without being likely to burn it.
When one has it thus more or less dry with the iron, one spreads it out before folding so
that it looses any dampness; after which, one folds it giving a light stroke of the iron to
mark the folds. This recommendation is very important for the linen of the child. A
damp chemise has caused more than one sore throat.
Translation copyright 2010 Deirdre Gawne. Not for sale. www.dressingbleuette.com