Happy Birthday Mum

Today is my Mum's birthday so I've made and posted to her this reversible apron beautifully modelled here by Flicky.

I picked out three fabrics at Purl Soho, Manhattan:

two of the fabrics are 70% cotton/30% silk blends from the Liberty Art Fabrics collection -
Willows Garden Portsea Place Voile (blue & red) inspired by photos of a wild garden of daisies, and William Morris’s wonderful ‘Willow’ wallpaper;

and June's Meadow B Portsea Place Voile originally hand drawn in pencil on Tresco: a meadow of cut specimens from the Abbey Garden.  A small idyllic family owned island 28 miles South of Cornwall, Tresco is one of the 5 inhabited of about 200 Scilly Isles;

and the third fabric is Robert Kaufman Essex Linen 55% linen/45% cotton blend in Navy.

Here's a closer look at some of the detail:

buttonhole adjustable neck tie

long bow ties to allow for back or front fastening

pocket frills and bias tape bound edges

 embroidered pocket edge and my small label detail.

frilled pockets lined with the Liberty apron backing fabric.

And here's the back of this reversible apron

front fastened bow

 appliqued name detail just in case Mum forgets who she is ;)

 my large label detail with care instructions on the reverse.

And another shot of Flicky who was soooo cold during this photo shoot.  It was minus something with an icy March wind but she wore the light jeans and t-shirt so the apron could be the star of the show and she kept hurrying off the balcony back into my bedroom to try to get warm again - what a trooper!!!

I'm really pleased with how it turned out and hopefully Mum will love it too.

Happy Birthday Mum xxx

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