Sewing Sunsets

I have had a little time to sew lately, but unfortunately, my camera has decided to be uncooperative.  One of the first steps in sewing this apron is to prepare the pocket and sew it on to the apron.  It is a basic patch pocket, but instead of square corners on the bottom, it is rounded.

I serge finish all the raw edges first.  Then, the pocket hem is turned down 1-1/4 inches, right sides together.  The short sides are sewn, using a 5/8 inch seam allowance, the corners are clipped diagonally, and the pocket hem is then turned to the right side and pressed.  I also sewed the hem down by placing the edge of the presser foot on the finished edge of the hem, and placed the sewing machine needle all the way to the left and sewed.   The side and bottom edges of the pocket were pressed under at about 5/8 inch.  In order to make it easier to press up the rounded corner, I ran an ease line, using a long gathering stitch, in the bottom corners.  You could also use a pocket template to help with this step.

After all the edges were pressed down, I pinned the pocket to the apron front and then edge stitched the pocket to the apron, using an edge stitch presser foot.   Personally, I like having one large pocket, but on this project, I chose to sew down the middle of the pocket in order to create two smaller pockets.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures to show you these steps.  However, if you follow the following links, you will find a tutorial on sewing patch pockets.  The sewing techniques are basically the same.

www.sewseamless.com/Page26.html and www.sewseamless.com/Page27.html  

Hopefully, my camera will be more cooperative with the rest of this sewing project.

Happy Sewing!

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