A Pinny For Your Thoughts...

With great shame and mortification, I must confess that I am a Clot of the Highest Order. I have been wiping wet and manky hands on my lap for so many years now that the muscle memory is honed to superhuman precision. I can find myself suddenly wearing a floury/chocolatey/jammy skirt front at any moment, without the first clue as to how this happened.

So, in absence of any sort of self awareness and with little will to change tactics at 40 years old, I am a devotee of the pinny. Casual enough to wear to answer the door but without the 'I mean business' determination of an actual apron, a pinny will keep me clean and allow me to fully indulge my need to keep a pocketful of random crap on my person at all times. Even as I write, my pinny pocket contains my phone, change, lip balm, safety pins, a cat toy and three sugar free sucky sweets. This requires a sturdy pocket,as you can imagine...

So, my old stock of [pinnies being oft-mended, threadbare and tatty, I decided on an upgrade. This time, double thickness for durability in washing, with a wide waistband and ties and a super-strong pocket. I found fabric I liked (on sale!!) and that was that! Here is my first, in a pretty green, I hope to make the second today, from a similar blue fabric.

There are many mistakes and wonky seams and I ran out of the correct green hue of thread before sewing on the pocket, but I'm delighted! If I can stop being side tracked by the next project, I plan to make quite a few of these. :)