A Tea Towel Apron is one of the quickest and simplest aprons to make!
Grab a tea towel and a half yard (or at least 16″) X 45″ wide matching fabric and you are ready to make a great gift!
I wanted to make cute holiday aprons and found these tea towels from the Martha Stewart collection at Macy’s.
Making the waistband/sash
Cut the half yard or 16″ of fabric in half lengthwise, so you have two long pieces at least 8″ wide.
Using about 1/4″ to 1/2″ seam, sew right sides together at one end.
Press entire length of fabric in half lengthwise, wrong sides together.
Open fabric up and press each edge to the middle. Yes, it is a long piece of fabric but the pressing is the hardest part and this makes such a nice looking waistband!
Fold in half and press again.
To finish each end, fold the fabric in half the other way and stitch 1/4″ from the edge. Repeat on other end.
Turn right side out, make sure corners are pointed and press.
Attaching the apron to the waistband/sash
Cut tea towel in half, or if you want it a bit longer, adjust accordingly. Place left edge of towel even with the seam and insert the cut edge of tea towel inside the long strip of waistband fabric (make sure the tea towel goes clear up to the fold). Pin.
Start at the end of the sash and edge stitch all the way around, stitching the open side (making sure edges meet) first, then around to the top edge until you are back to where you started.
Finished!
The apron ties on the side with a bow. The ties are long enough that the apron will fit most everyone!
Wrapping
There is half (or a little less if you made apron longer) of an apron. This fabric could easily be used to make pockets, ruffles (or something I will show you later in the week) but this time I made matching fabric gift bags for the aprons!
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You mentioned you found your towels at Macy’s – I have been looking and looking and can’t find any towels that seem “worthy” – at Walmart the other day I checked their Christmas clearance and the only Christmas towels I could find had a strange feel to them and looked as if the design would “flake” off with one washing – ugh!
BTW, what makes a kitchen towel a “tea” towel? For those of us (someone, please say I’m not alone in not knowing this) who don’t know….? 🙂
I also shared this on my blog! Thanks for all the tutorials and fun stuff! Merry Christmas!
These aprons make it official. You are the coolest!
This is something I could actaully do!!!! I like it!
Thanks for the great tutorial and wonderful idea for a quick gift. I may have to try and whip some of these out before Christmas!
Very cute and I love the tea towels you found! A couple weeks ago I searched high and low for good tea towels in my area and finally gave up =(
Wow, a lot of bang for such a simple project. Thanks for sharing that.
I hope you don’t mind, I shared this on my blog, and linked back to you. I have been eyeballing the tea towels at ourlocal dollar store for a few days now. I was thinking matching apron & crocheted top towels. Thanks for the how to!!!!
Very pretty! In 2010 I hope to get a sewing machine and start learning to sew, and I will tuck this away to work on for one of my first projects. Thanks!
So easy!!! thank you for sharing!!
Adorable!
This is such a great idea and they turned out ADORABLE!! I will have to add this to my to do list!
I absolutely LOVE this! Definitely doing it!
Thanks for the quick and easy (to follow and do) tutorial! These are great gifts for those women on the list that have everything or are just hard to buy for. Love the matching fabric gift bags!
Oh I love the fabrics you chose! So pretty!