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We are wanting to create a placemat that looks like an apron for our RS B-Day party. I remember some really cute placemats that were on here earlier. Does anyone know of one that looks like an apron? Thanks Deb
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do you want to make them using paper? Jers girl has an apron template on her site. You can add a pocket to it. let me see if I have a pic of something I did.
Deb what are you doing for RS birthday? I need to get started on ours and i am stumped, any good ideas? PM me or e-mail me please bettyjo7@hotmail.com Hugs Betty
I received this in an email today. It goes with your apron idea.
I don't think our kids know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.
Send this to those who would know, and love, the story about Grandma's aprons. Or it can be a good history lesson for those that have no idea how the apron played a part in our lives.
REMEMBER: Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron ..... but Love !!
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This Christmas, my mother gave my daughter an apron that her mother had made. Now my grandma died when I was 10 years old. So this apron was a crocheted apron and very old. I found the exact same poem that Bsferg posted and we framed it. My mother then made my daughter another apron like the one her mother had made and my daughter will frame both aprons (one made by her great grandmother and one made by her grandmother) and the poem. Funny how this came up today here...
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Glad you all brought up aprons. I do women's ministry themes on my website and my next one I'll be posting is on Aprons so I've been looking for a good apron template to use as a favor type thing. I saw the one at Jers girl and several others that were basically the barbecue style but was wanting something a little more old fashioned. If anyone knows of one, please let me know. I could make one myself, but I'm not the reinvent the wheel kind---if there's one out there, I'd just rather make a link for my visitors. I've searched but can't find anything. Thanks!
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I made this template and used it a couple years ago for our Ladies Lift, if you can use it or anyone else wants it, feel free to snag it. No copy write issues as I made it and am giving it willingly. Hugs Cinny
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When I was a little girl (late 60's), my grandma made me several aprons out of dish towels. They had cute pictures on them (cats or dogs etc.). I still have some of them and have let my daughter wear them.
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