Artisan Apron and Hat Contests
Aug. 21st, 2008 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseProbably the most popular (in terms of hits/comments) post of all time on this blog was my overview of what i called the Lady Artisan Apron, a work apron with a fitted bodice-bib section. Since posting about it over a year ago, dozens of people have emailed, commented, PM'd or otherwise contacted me about it, often sending pictures of their own renditions, asking questions, adding features or modifications. Some have been used for crafts artisans and dyers like myself, but people have also made them for countless other purposes--bakers and chefs, artists, housecleaners, costumers, role-players, photographers, child-care professionals, you name it! It's been awesome to see how everyone's made it their own.
And, here i am over a year later, having finally finished one of the two i had planned to make way back when i bought some denim for my dream-style work aprons and put together that first mockup ("beta" version)! It's funny how little time you have to sew for yourself when you spend all your days making stuff for a living, but that's okay; i've had the mockup to wear in the interim... Not that it was nearly as nice as this new one is.
It's pinstriped denim with brass hardware and various detailing employing bias tape, grosgrain ribbon, and another patterned blue ribbon i found in stock. The white splotches indicate that i reckon it's time to give the shop mirror a vigorous wipe-down. :/
It feels very Rosie the Riveter to wear around! And, it also helps with my looking more like a respectable professional (albeit one that works with paints and dyes) and less like an itinerant drool-factory. Today i even crawled around on the floor in fittings in it unscathed. Hurrah! Success. I'm sure in another year and a half, i'll finish the OTHER one i've had fabric for all this time as well.
I've got two hats in progress that hopefully i'll be finishing and writing up soon (two that y'all voted on, in fact), but in the interim, speaking of hats...i have links to a couple of hat contests!
HatLife.com sponsors the Hatty Awards, for which one either nominates onesself or is nominated by colleagues. Know anyone you really admire in their contributions to the field of hatmaking? Nominate away, and may the maddest hatters win! Nominations close September 30th.
And, it's that time of year again for the Hats & Hearts millinery contest, sponsored by the NC Women's Health Center and the UNC Oncology department. Hats entered will be given to cancer patients in the treatment program, so make sure if you enter that you don't enter a hat you want returned. Two of my students and i entered last year and one of them won in the men's division! The prizes are some pretty good gift certificates to restaurants and businesses, and it's a great cause. Registration deadline is August 29th, with all hats received by September 3rd.
And, here i am over a year later, having finally finished one of the two i had planned to make way back when i bought some denim for my dream-style work aprons and put together that first mockup ("beta" version)! It's funny how little time you have to sew for yourself when you spend all your days making stuff for a living, but that's okay; i've had the mockup to wear in the interim... Not that it was nearly as nice as this new one is.
It's pinstriped denim with brass hardware and various detailing employing bias tape, grosgrain ribbon, and another patterned blue ribbon i found in stock. The white splotches indicate that i reckon it's time to give the shop mirror a vigorous wipe-down. :/
It feels very Rosie the Riveter to wear around! And, it also helps with my looking more like a respectable professional (albeit one that works with paints and dyes) and less like an itinerant drool-factory. Today i even crawled around on the floor in fittings in it unscathed. Hurrah! Success. I'm sure in another year and a half, i'll finish the OTHER one i've had fabric for all this time as well.
I've got two hats in progress that hopefully i'll be finishing and writing up soon (two that y'all voted on, in fact), but in the interim, speaking of hats...i have links to a couple of hat contests!
HatLife.com sponsors the Hatty Awards, for which one either nominates onesself or is nominated by colleagues. Know anyone you really admire in their contributions to the field of hatmaking? Nominate away, and may the maddest hatters win! Nominations close September 30th.
And, it's that time of year again for the Hats & Hearts millinery contest, sponsored by the NC Women's Health Center and the UNC Oncology department. Hats entered will be given to cancer patients in the treatment program, so make sure if you enter that you don't enter a hat you want returned. Two of my students and i entered last year and one of them won in the men's division! The prizes are some pretty good gift certificates to restaurants and businesses, and it's a great cause. Registration deadline is August 29th, with all hats received by September 3rd.
