Introducing my WIP - A NeedleWorkMonday Challenge

First let me start off by saying I don’t think I’m an overachiever. The reason I have one WIP (work in progress) and not many WIPs is because I don’t start near as many projects as most of you do. That might change over time as my kids get older and I have more time on my hands but that’s just how it is right now.

Well, actually I just thought about something else. Another reason I don’t have many WIPs is because I usually frog what frustrates me. If a project doesn’t look good or work out over a certain amount of time I’m like done with it. 😄

The project I’m introducing here is not new to Hive. I made one just like it and shared the finished results 3 years ago! Yep you’re right, that’s how long this WIP has been sitting in a bag because I started this one right after I shared that post.

I made an egg apron to sell to homesteaders for easy egg collecting…

The plan was to make several of them in different colors but yea I didn’t get past making and completing one. 😕

The pattern is easy enough but there are a couple of things I had to guess on and figure out.

I actually made the pocket strips on this one way too thick and couldn’t get three rows like the pattern called for. Instead, I added a pocket at the top that you can keep your phone or whatever else you need in. I have since added a button to that pocket to help keep the items from falling out when bending over.

I decided not to sell them after all because eventually we will have our own homestead with chickens (Lord willing) and will need these aprons. I plan on making a couple more after this one so that my kiddos will have one too. Yep, I’m planning ahead for the land we will have one day, I’m very hopeful about it. 😊

So that brings me to today and the current apron I’m working on. Thankfully I already have most of the pieces made it’s just a matter of getting them sewed on. At the end I’ll add on the strings that tie around the waist.

Notice how the strips curve? This was something that was annoying when sewing the pockets. I have to be sure to keep them straight as I go and keep them lined up on the same row of stitches.

Of course the crocheting part was relaxing and easy it’s just the sewing part and getting the pockets right that made me shy away from finishing it.

Here is the layout of it. I am glad I was able to make the strips thin enough to have three rows of pockets now…that’s more eggs it will hold. 😃