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studios extras: Once upon an apron

Tips and Tricks for Fabric Collaged Apron Embellishments

By Kim Sherrod

 As you contemplate making a Fanciful Collage Apron like mine, take the opportunity to use unexpected materials and motifs. Look with new eyes at everyday objects around your home and experiment. Incorporate those objects or images into your art apron to enhance your novelty fabric images and build upon your theme.

Want to add pizzazz to your pockets? Try these ideas:

Pockets can be created from

• Embroidered linen napkins
• Old-fashioned ladies hankies
• Crocheted doilies
• Graphics from old favorite t-shirts
• Back pockets from blue jeans
• Pre-felted wool sweaters or coat remnants
• Baby dresses
• Fabric coasters, placemats, or tablecloths
• Gloves, socks, or scarves
• Hats, especially baby hats with ruffles
• Chenille bedspreads, vintage pillowcases
• Quilt squares or UFOs from classes

 Scan and print graphics onto fabric using these sources:

• 4” x 5” photos printed on fabric with simple log cabin strip piecing to the enlarge size
• Flour sack graphics, either actual fabrics or scanned and printed on fabric from paper sacks
• Images from labels on canned goods
• Paper collages printed on fabric
• Pictures from storybooks, magazines, copyright-free images such as those from Dover Publications
• Children’s artwork or scanned flowers from your garden
• Scanned vintage or inherited recipe cards or love letters
• Scrapbooking paper, scanned and printed onto fabric
• Vintage postcards or scanned tintypes

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