Speedy T-shirt into Apron

There are lots of how-to's around for sewing aprons, all of which are great, I never knew how popular aprons were until I needed to make one. Leaving things to the last minute as usual, I realised creating a beautiful master-piece was not affordable, practical or appropriate for something about to go to a festival kitchen.

So this apron has a few different features:
1.  It uses an old t-shirt and a shoe lace
2.  It is very quick and easy and requires no pattern (this took me a few hours to knock up).
3.  The results are functional* and fun rather than neat and tidy!

* Although, highly ironically I was not allowed to wear this particular apron for said festival due to a mis-understanding of environmental health rules -one must have a 'bibbed' apron, apparently. I'll be working on an extension soon...

Step 1 Select your materials

You will need:

• T-shirt : hold it up against you to make a rough guesstimate for sizing. I chose a large mens-sized, air-tex cotton one to give me plenty of material of an appropriate weight and washability.

• Scraps of material for a pocket and/or decoration

• Shoe lace - for the ties, you could substitute with ribbon, cord, anything really 

• Thread

• Scissors (dress makers/ fabric scissors will save A LOT of frustration and time)

• Pins and pin cushion 

• Sewing machine (or lots of time and patience for hand sewing)

• Tape measure

• An iron (not strictly necessary but helps with neat edges)

• Some taylors chalk might also come in handy as an optional extra

Comments

[bongodrummer]

Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing.

[jnifrwebb]

I def. am going to give this a try

[pleabargain]

Great idea and very good instructable. I must say, though, a bib would make this instructable a little better. That said, it wouldn't be too hard to add one now would it! Thanks for posting... time to borrow my mother-in-law's sewing machine!