hi i'm Makyla from makylacreates.com welcome back to my channel
in today's lesson of my beginner's sewing series we are going to be making an apron
i have picked up uh two meters of uh two contrasting fabrics because uh this apron
will be reversible so i really wanted my fabrics to kind of work together but be a little bit
different so i've gone for a pink check here and a pink and white stripe which i think look really
nice they're both cottons as well so i would definitely recommend sticking to cotton um for
this project i do have a pdf pattern available on my website for this i will leave the link in the
description box below if you want to download that if you have just joined us in this lesson of the
beginner sewing series and you're just wanting to make the apron no worries but if you do want
to jump into the rest of the beginner's sewing series it's here on my youtube channel for free
you can find the link in the description box below so once you have printed out the pdf pattern on my
website you'll just want to grab your fabric so i'm going to cut out both of my layers together
um but you could cut these out separately if you don't feel comfortable doing that
so what i'm doing here is just matching up both of the folds so that i can then
place my apron pattern on the fold
onto both layers of fabric and then i can cut them both out together rather than having to
cut out and lay up twice that's just a little bit of a tip for you
and then i'm just going to pop in some pins all the way around
my apron to hold the fabric in place then i can just cut around with my fabric scissors
so now we want to cut out our ties so i'm just going to cut out the ties the same way that i cut
out my apron um because i want to have contrasting ties as well um i think that would just be really
cute to have stripe and then checkered ties and then the other way around as well so just make
sure that if you are cutting out the same fabric then you cut out two pairs of each of these ties
so make sure your machine is all set up i have a lesson on that in the beginner sewing playlist
and then i am setting my machine on stitch normal stitch and then um on two and a half
to three for the stitch length so i'm wanting to mix and match my ties so i'm going to grab
one of the check and one of the stripe for the longest tie and i'm just going to start to sew
this together so to do that i'm just going to pop in some pins just down the center like that
because i'm going to be sewing on both sides and so you want there to be enough room to kind of sew
around you don't have to use pins if you don't want to i'm just going to pin there for showing
you for an example okay so to start you just want to sew uh one centimeter in from the raw edges of
the ties so i'm just marking that up on my sewing machine here and i'm just going to back tap
at the beginning of my ties to secure that stitch
and then you just want to sew all the way around with a one centimeter seam allowance
when you get to the end here you just want to do a pivot and keep sewing
so that you're on the one centimeter mark and keep sewing
now coming to the end of our tie we just want to back tack
a couple of times and then make sure that your needle is up and lift up your foot pedal you can
see the areas where we have just pivoted so i'm just going to cut off the corners
and to help that turn through a lot nicer now for this step you could grab a sewing
needle or something long that you can poke through um to turn this through to the right side so
now you just want to grab the ends that we have closed up and pop in something that you can turn
it through with so i'm just going to use this not sharp end of my sewing needle because i don't want
it to poke through the fabric and then just start to push it all the way through to the open end
now you just want to grab your iron and start to press the straps down because
at the moment they are a little bit puffy so it's really nice to
get them looking crisp and flat by giving them a really good press with your iron
now you just want to continue sewing all of your ties until you have four you will have two long
ties and two shorter ties which are to go around the neck the long ties are to go around your waist
once you have all of the ties turned through grab your longer straps so here are my two long straps
and some pins and what we're going to do is pin these to the sides here so i want mine to be
contrasting so when you sew your two pieces together you want them to be right sides
together so this is the outside of my apron that will be seen and then i want the stripy side to be
showing with this side of my apron so to do that i'm just going to pop the stripe side
down which is right sides together and i'm also wanting to make sure that i'm leaving about a
centimeter i get from where i pop my tie because i'm going to need to sew the seam
of the contrasting piece along that edge do the same for the other side of your apron
and then you want to make sure you're pinning the open
end of your ties to the apron not the closed end
and then at the top of the apron uh you want to do the same thing so grabbing your short ties now so
i'm going to pop this at the top and i'm going to make sure that there is a one centimeter gap
from the edge into the tie because we will be sewing a seam along there
now that all of your ties are pinned to the apron you can grab your contrasting fabric so the other
layer and what you want to do is unfold it and then right sides together you want to pop it
onto pretty much on top of your apron you've just pinned the ties to and you just want to pop in
some pins because what we're going to be doing is sewing all the way around our apron now to close
it up but we will be leaving a small gap so that we're able to turn it through to the right sides
so now we want to close up our apron so i'm going to start sewing from this edge
and the seam allowance is one centimeter as it was around the ties this is the top edge of the apron
so when you get to the end here you want to make sure that you're able to pivot and there is a one
centimeter seam allowance still and then you want to continue sewing along this curved edge
i'm actually going to stop about midway here on the bottom of my apron
and do a back tech so that i'm able to pull out my work and then i'm going to flip it around
and start sewing from the top again and now this is so that we can have
an opening at the bottom of our apron to turn it through and it's in a spot where
we will easily be able to close it without it being too noticeable
once you get about 10 centimeters from the other back tack at the bottom of
the apron back take again and take your work out of the sewing machine
this will be the opening that we're going to turn our apron through in the next step also
just make sure that you have removed all of the pins before you start to turn your apron through
so how i like to do this is just kind of pop my fingers into the corners and push them through
you could cut the corners off but i'm not going to today um so once you get to here just be careful
because you will probably have a pin in there holding your tie and then you can start to pull
through your ties now this here is what i like to call bagging out so essentially you are keeping
all of your seams inside of the garment and they won't be seen from the outside it's just
a really nice way to sew things with really nice finishings especially for something like an apron
as you can see we've got a really nice finish there on the edges of the apron because we
took the time to line up where our ties were going so to close up the hole at the bottom
i just like to fold down one centimeter on both sides and then hold it in place
and i'm just going to grab the iron and just give it a nice press
in place and then we can sew that down on the sewing machine so i'm just going to pop in some
pins so i remember then you just want to edge stitch along the bottom opening of your apron
so i really hope that you enjoyed making this apron with me it's definitely a really great
beginner sewing project to get you started and kind of learning a few of those techniques like
how we've made this reversible and bagged out and then creating ties all sorts of things there that
are really great techniques to get your head around but when you start to sew sewing projects
from things like patterns if you don't need an apron but you really want to follow along with
this tutorial think about gifting it to a family member it would make a really great gift in a
little gift basket with some cooking utensils and maybe some yummy little treats as well
people really appreciate thoughtful gifts like that if you did really enjoyed this
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we will be starting to learn how to sew ruffles which i'm really excited about if you haven't
already noticed i have a lot of gathering and frills and just really pretty details in a lot
of my projects and my sewing patterns as well which you can find in the description box below
thank you so much for watching and i hope that you really enjoy making yourself
a reversible apron and i will see you in the next episode of my beginner sewing
series