Here is another cute transparent vinyl (?) apron in 1953 polish vintage film (pictures) "Can you fire the stove?". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m1ZFTpWcO4g.html Apologizes non polish speaking people - subtitles are not available :(
@@andrzejborkowski6476 Thank you, Andrzej, for you have helped me immensely, even if this was not your intention. 😂 Curious about the transparent vinyl apron, I peeked at the film and ended up watching it in its entirety. Why? Because I am about to buy an old house with a cooking stove and a tile stove very similar to those in the flick, and the film taught me how to use them! 😊 Brilliant! 👍
I absolutely adore niche content like this. Like, am I into vintage aprons? No. Am I still going to watch a 10-minute video dedicated to nothing but vintage aprons? Absolutely
My Grandmother used to keep all her aprons from across the years. One of my favourite parts was picking out an apron from her collection to wear while we made food. This video brought back a lot of memories from that time in my life, thank you.
Right? Like, I analyse everything for years and then if sth turns out wrong, even when not through my own fault, I still get angry with myself because "I could have anticipated it". And here's Karolina just going at it. Good for her!
Saaaaame. I literally have an upcycling project (from thrift-store clothes) spread out across my floor right now because I have a ~~vague~~ idea what I want to do with it but I'm too scared to start 🙃
Ok now THIS I might actually do. I want to sew clothes for myself, but i feel overwhelmed at how complicated it can be. But an apron is like 1/3rd of a dress, I could totally start with that!
Good place to start. It was a typical starter project for first term sewing class when my mother was at school. They needed them for cooking classes. They had to learn fast. By summer they had to have made their summer uniforms! Partly an economic decision as people couldn’t be providing material for clothing that wouldn’t get worn and certainly it provided an incentive to learn, if you got it wrong you were going to spend summers for the next few years very uncomfortable.
Yes, definitely! The best thing about aprons is you can make them super simple--just some rectangles--and then go from there if you feel like getting fancier. Plus, it's an apron, designed to be worked in and stained and etc, so it's OK if it isn't perfect. Good luck with your first project!
And after that you can make an apron-dress (I don't necessarily mean the Viking kind, there's really cute modern dresses that are also called apron dresses 😅)
When I was a teenage…lord so long ago!..you wouldn’t catch me in an apron or hat or dress! Or the color pink! How strange age makes us! I won’t cook or clean without an apron! I live dresses especially in the summer and I love pink and lavender goes so well with my white hair! Yes!! I’m older than dirt but I love your channel! Love your hair! Love your personality! Absolutely love your short mini movies! Hilarious! You should be on the stage!
I wonder if your embracing of those things is easier now that no one is telling you that you *must* wear this or that? My mom always found it so funny that I used to love wearing gloves when I could, for example. She had such awful memories of *having to* wear gloves on certain occasions, hats for church, etc. and thoroughly embraced the freedom of the late 60s and 70s (when she "scandalously" had the audacity to go braless in the downtown department store of her hometown after returning from San Francisco 😲🤭).
But its ok for your guy’s granddaughters to act like hoes thinking there a man to sleep around like its ok?….Not knowing what they can catch?… 🤦🏾♂️ok…
I was cleaning my oven yesterday, and I did think briefly about wearing an apron, but I really needed something that would cover my sleeves. Thanks to a combination of caution and luck my shirt remained undamaged without protective clothing.
What I hate about modern aprons is the neck strap. It always either feels like it is pulling, or it is so loose it's hanging down my back. What I love about vintage aprons are the shoulder straps actually over the shoulders or criss crossed in back. Plus they are darn cute with the pockets, ruffles and adorable (but useful) touches.
I remember making a bibless apron for my grandmother, early 1960s. It was green gingham with a cross-stitched grape motif. I had a lot of help from my mother, because I was only about 11 years old at the time. Eventually it came back to me, an old lady in her seventies.
My favourite don’t have an iron but need an iron hack is a pot of boiling water. Thin towel between it and the fabric you’re ironing in case it’s dirty or to prevent scorching and you’re golden! The water keeps the heat for longer. Used it a lot in university. You can ask use a hair straightener on seams but I feel like people are more likely to have pots and pans than that.
To see if a piece of fabric bleeds, soak a small piece in water, remove it, then scrub it with a paper towel. If the towel stays clean, the fabric should be safe to use.
Oh wow - the first apron is advertised in Amoskeag Gingham, which was made at a mill about 30 miles down the road from me in Manchester, New Hampshire! It was apparently the largest cotton textile mill in the world at one point, though it closed up shop in 1935 and now the old mill buildings have all been converted to loft apartments. Thanks for showing that advertisement!
Tip for when you have no iron, if you have one of those steel hot water bottles you can fill it with cooking water, put on some oven mitts and roll it over the seams.
Omg I missed those clothing sketches sm!! I think last time we saw them was in that “designing an 1890s wardrobe”. Also it feels very nostalgic to hear your videos accompanied by 1916 (or smth) music!!
The last one is the winner for me. I bet that will be the one you end up using the most. Maybe sew pot holders underneath at the ends to use the aprin to carry hot pots.
I appreciate the pure chaotic energy on display here. Reminds me that sometimes you just gotta go for it and stop futzing with perfection. All of these looked lovely~
I remember doing cross-stitch on gingham fabrics with my Grandmother for aprons! Both she and my Mother had an apron for each and every holiday, so now I do, too. Total apron nerd. My Groundhog’s Day apron is adorable and my Martin Luther King Jr. Day apron is cotton with the Emancipation Proclamation printed on it! Boom!!!
I love aprons but always forget to wear them! I have a 60s one which belonged to my grandma. It's apple green and white gingham with white frill trimming, and the front pocket has hand-painted hens and chickens, countryside lush green grass, a far away barn and a sunny clear day. I love it and I hope to pass it down to my future children and grandchildren ❤️ IIRC it was a gift from a close friend of hers when she moved in with my grandad (:
I was so dubious when you started talking about the vinyl strapless apron but it looks fantastic with the glamorous silhouette! Amazing what you can do with hot glue and zip ties.
Loved this. I still have one of my mum’s aprons from the 60s. A bright blue check, with chickens on the pocket. I still remember her wearing it, from when I was a very small child. 💙🐔🐥
This video had the best kind of personal Easter Egg. The ad for the first apron is made from Amoskeag Gingham. The Amoskeag Mills are a HUGE part of of my home towns history (good, bad and ugly). Honestly, I think it's the driving reason Manchester grew to 'city' status. The Mill itself closed in the 1930s, but the buildings are still present and used for commercial space. And the dorms where workers lived are now apartments. However, despite (or maybe because of) it being such a **thing**, this is the first time I have seen an anything associated with their fabric outside of a museum, library, historical society setting. I no longer live in the area and It brought it was cool to see something from 'home' show up where I was least expecting it.
For the red wool bleeding: a trick of my grandmother is to soak the garment in vinegar before you wash it, this will help set the dies and prevent bleeding.
Omg a little contrast whipstitch border on the felt apples would be sooooo cute 🥺🥺🥺 especially with like a red yarn contrast stitch around the apron hem!
You do it all so well it is AMAZING to witness. You know all of it, be it historical knowledge down to actually making it from bare material. The research, the actual making, the video edit ??? You are absolutely incredible
Karolina, I need to know about your all in one lamp/table/shelf situation in the living room! It's so dang cute! Does this type of furniture have name? Because this felt like love at first sight and I want one now 🥰
I'm finding similar items just searching "table floor lamp"... it's a cool piece for sure!
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there’s a lot of similar pieces like that here in Poland and they’re usually called “standing art deco lamp” - so maybe a phrase like that will be useful in searching?
Oh my goodness, I love this! I saw my inherited aprons (1950s/1960s) in your pattern images. My favorite is a blue and purple wavy striped fabric with flower accents. It is finished with blue seam binding and has angled pockets with white mini rickrack trim around them. I am pretty sure my mother made the aprons, she and my grandma made a lot of their clothes.
Nice aprons! I have my mothers old apron from the late 60’s with embroidered ties and a small pocket, I love it so much. It is made from thick cotton and it is in very good shape after hundreds of washes.
I definitely need to sew myself a 1950s apron now! Also even though you were winging it pretty much the whole time, all of those aprons turned out so cute!
If you don't have an iron you can heat a pot of water and use the bottom if you put baking paper over the fabric! Maybe not for very delicate fabrics but for cotton etc. should work okay! 😊 Beautiful aprons btw, I love the one from the 50s especially! What a beautiful color
Omg all of these are soo cute! Your house was the perfect backdrop for modeling them too. My favorite was the first gingham one, it just so make me think of sleeping beauty living in the forest with the fairies. The heart topped one was my second favorite. So freaking adorables! The strapless one was very elegant and sexy. I could definitely see that for a cocktail party.
These are all super cute. Cutting straight into the fabric without even making a paper pattern first is bold! (love it). I use my apron as a tradie uses his overalls ie I wipe my hands on them and take absolutely no care with what gets on them. For that reason, cute little aprons without a bib are out, as are aprons made of anything thinner than denim or a canvas weave (sadly). Anything thinner and I risk what is on the apron staining what is underneath.
I don't know if Color Catchers are available in Poland, but they are Fantastic for things like your apple apron. They are a staple for quilters and I now even give a box of them with quilts when I gift them.
Shout out to Sage Lillyman whose vintage apron tutorial was the first thing i made with the sewing machine we got a couple of years ago. I made it from an old black table cloth with a scalloped edge (no hemming!) and it has a cross-over back. I made the top part a diagonal fold over with more of the scalloped edge and it's SO CUTE and it was super easy to make. Literally just eyeballing lengths and trying to cut straight 😂 I love making aprons and am now addicted, and i will definitely steal some of Karolina's masterpiece ideas (though I'm not touching vinyl plastic lol)
I was actually brainstorming an nice historical adjacent apron for work, thanks for the inspo! Edit: Akso adore the fits youre showing off with the aprons!
Making vintage aprons is my JAM. Buuuutttt I hate shirttail hems, so I line everything. Right sides together, sew around the edges, flip it inside out, and hide the raw edges in the waistband lol
I think we learned a lot about Karolina here: Sets off to make vintage aprons just with pictures from shopping catalogues - COMPLETE SKILL Consider buying an iron and ironing board before starting - COMPLETE FAIL 😁
That heart shaped one is so cute! When I sew fake leather I use a jeans needle and a longer stitch length. I know there are special leather needles, I bought a pack once and I can never find them. 😅
My grandma used to sew me different aprons, when I was a teenager. My favorite one was the red apron styled on '50. I miss my grandma, this video is somehow nostalgic for me. Thank you.
This is how I make my stuff, just completely winging it, lol, I have plans to make a froggy pinafore sometime in the the future when I can be bothered to buy the fabric for it
I wish I could send you my great grandma's apron! I've had it since she passed at 104 years old in 2017. But I've no idea what to do with it. I feel like someone like you would probably value it more than me (I have it folded and bagged in a box in my closet 😅).
You are so comforting in this crazy, running world... I don't know if Im making sence but you make me calm everytime I wacht your videos. I do not even care about vintage 🙈🙊 Love ya
The heart shaped apron! It gives me so much nostalgia, I had to make one in school (only girls school of course) and it was my first time sewing... It ended up cute as hell, but not fitting lol, i couldn't pass my head on the straps (yes stupid me didn't make them separate lmao) I can't even remember what happened to it 😢
I think the last fabric was very appropriately 1960s. Not high fashion, but I have seen a lot of those type of fabrics in 1960s Burda and in sewing books from the era. Sort of the more down to earth, crafty, homey style that was a thing in the 1960s in central and northern Europe.
Okay but that backless apron was a LEWK and had no right being that sexy for an apron 😂 Every time I have made an apron something has gone catastrophically wrong, so I salute you and your endeavor of making 5 aprons 😊
The 1940s one is similar to my dozens of handmade lolita aprons I made to protect my dresses from my frequent nosebleeds. 😅 so it was my favorite. ❤ but they all are fantastic.
My current favorite style of apron is this Japanese one that Claire Saffitz usually wears, it’s more like a smock without sleeves though. The apron that my grandmother wore from the 1930s till she died in the early 2000s was similar but it buttoned up the back
