Peggy’s Pinny

My Auntie Peggy telephoned last week. She explained she had been reading this article about a woman who needed to walk with a stick, even round her home, and found it hard to carry things. So her sister had made her an apron with a number of different sized pockets [small for tissues and pens, large for tins and packets] This had been so successful the woman had started marketing them – “not Joseph’s Coat Of Many Colours, but An Apron Of Many Pockets”

My Aunt [in her 80s, limited mobility] wondered if I could make her one. Preferably green colours to go with her kitchen. This was one of my Saturday Sewing Projects.

I had a kitchen curtain in my stash - the last of a set of 4 I got in a charity shop ages ago. I thought at first glance it was from M&S – but no, it was not St Michael but St Bernard!

I cut out a pattern using one of my own aprons, and made pockets from some left over green cotton [which, coincidentally, were from my Aunt’s old kitchen curtains – I wonder if she’ll recognise it]

I put two small pockets on the top half, and a rectangle of fabric, divided into two large pockets, on the lower part. And added a name patch.

The neck strap is adjustable with D-rings. I hope she likes it!