Halloween Apron

Here's the finished apron from that crazy pattern.  The FACs (used to be known as Home Ec) teacher at my school helped me figure it out and make a REAL pattern.  I had this Halloween material on hand and thought an apron was the perfect use for it.

More aprons

My daughter's Young Women class asked me to help them make aprons.  L and I went through my stack of patterns and settled on this pattern for the apron, third from left.  It is an apron I have not made before. Yesterday, I sent the materials list with L to hand out to the girls and leaders. 

Today I opened the package to cut out the pattern and what do I see?  A bizarre collection of xerox . . . ., well to use the word "patterns" would be flattery.  This was a $10 purchase--for suggestions? For me to have to cobble together a pattern? To not have pattern pieces for all the apron parts even after I cobble some together? I feel cheated. If I cut out one "suggestion," I lose all the others so it necessitates xeroxing all the crazy hen scratches for apron C to preserve the hen scratchings for aprons A and B. And I just ran out of printer ink.  

I could make the suggestions fly if I were the only one making these but I have to hand around the pattern (and just where do I get that?) and not just some vague suggestions to a bunch of other people.  I will make it work but consider carefully before you buy any patterns from this person. I could have looked at this picture and drawn my own pattern more easily and had $10 in my pocket.  And as it turns out, I will be making a pattern myself anyway and I will be $10 poorer, too.

A little tradition

Here we are (well, I'm taking the picture) having Navajo tacos at a local fair--a little tradition for the four of us (since the 5th of us was traditionally working on fires).  You can tell it is still a well-liked tradition because all three agreed to come specifically for the Navajo tacos (and I came for the togetherness and--let's be honest--so I didn't have to cook dinner!).