Mommy & Me Apron and Giveaway!!

Today is kicking off a week of projects made with Laminated Cotton.  During the summer I made a quite a few items using this fabric and fell in love with its versatility.  All the features of regular cotton, but with the added bonus of being water resistant!  It's also phthalate free, which means its safe for kids & anything food related. 


Timeless Treasures, an amazing fabric producer, saw some of the things I'd made and asked if I wanted to try out some of their new laminated cotton fabrics for a project of my choosing.  A chance to play with some all new fabric?!  Yes, please!  Well, me being me, instead of making 1 thing, I made 5.  The prints were soooo pretty!  These laminated cottons will be coming out this fall and are from their Sunny Daze collection by Alice Kennedy.  Aren't they gorgeous?!?

Now let's start with today's item, what I'm calling my Mommy & Me Apron.  I'll be honest, I've never been a huge apron user.  Mostly because most are either too blah looking or seem too pretty to get dirty.  I came up with this design so clothes stay clean and cleaning the apron itself is a 2 second job.  Just wipe & it's ready for next time.

I also designed it so that it uses less than a yard of laminated cotton and would be easy enough for a beginner to make.  In under an hour, this apron is ready to wear when cooking, making art or doing anything a little bit messy.  Flattering AND functional!

It's also got three built-in pockets for holding utensils or tools.  And of course, once I made it, someone small horned in on the action:

"Hey Mommy!  What about me?"  How could I refuse that little face?  So I also made a child sized version so every little helper could stay clean too & look just like mommy (or grandma, daddy, etc.).

The icing on the cake was Timeless Treasures liked my projects enough to want to use them in a tradeshow display showcasing this new fabric! I was so excited - it's like showing it to all the cool kids at craft school. Yay!!  


This pattern set is now available in my Etsy shop, The Green Hedgehog, but to celebrate my week-long laminated cotton lovefest, I'm giving away TWO pdf copies of my Mommy & Me Apron Pattern Set to two lucky winners.  Make some cute aprons for yourself, your kids or to give as gifts (hint: the holidays are fast approaching!).  You know you're part of the cool, craft crowd so get in on the apron action!  To enter:

Initial Entry:

Tell me when would you wear an apron made from this pattern?  Cooking, cleaning, gardening, crafting, something I haven't even thought of...etc.

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• Heart my shop on Etsy 
• Blog about this giveaway on your blog (2 entries)

The giveaway will be open until 11:59PM EST October 12, 2010.  I will announce the winners on October 14, 2010.  Good luck & come back tomorrow for more fun projects!