How to sew an apron from guipure on the last bell?

According to many, the school uniform of distant Soviet times is hopelessly outdated. However, more and more often on the last bell the graduates dress up in a chocolate-colored dress and snow-white apron.

How to sew a school apron

Sew it yourself is not difficult. Exactly following the instructions, careful attention to taking measurements and the process of cutting, as well as a great desire to look different, will help to cope with this task.

Necessary materials

Getting Started. To get started, you need the following.

• Paper, pencil and ruler to make a pattern.
• Centimeter for taking measurements.
• The material from which the apron will be made (thin cotton or lace, lace, organza, etc.).
• Scissors, thread (contrasting color: for basting and for sewing products).
• Pins to attach the pattern to the fabric for cutting.
• Sewing machine and the basics of managing it.

How to take measurements

It is better if someone from close will help to take the necessary measurements, because an independent “measurement” may have errors.

As an example, take the classic model.

If desired, on its basis, you can bring to life any variations and styles.

So let's start with waist circumference. The measurement is determined by the narrowest point on the body. This will be the length of the future belt on the apron. For strings, you need to add about 1 meter.

Next, the girth of the hips is determined. This measurement is based on the convex points of the buttocks.

The next indicator - the length of the apron. For this measure from the waist measure the desired length. Usually, an apron is made shorter than a dress by 2-5 cm. In general, this value depends on personal preferences and wishes.

The length of the apron strap is measured as follows: a centimeter is passed from the waist up through the shoulder to the waist from the back.

To determine the size of the "breast" is better to cut a paper layout and in front of a mirror to attach to yourself. If you are visually satisfied with everything, leave it; if you don’t like it, you can experiment a bit with width and height. The main thing is not to "overdo it" with the width, otherwise the straps will constantly fall from the shoulders.

Pattern upper parts apron

Now you can proceed to the material. Remember the saying about sevenfold measurement? Carefully transfer the pattern to the fabric, make allowances, recheck, and only then pick up the scissors.

Of course, you can without any special effort to take a ready-made pattern from the Internet or an old magazine. Only such schemes are made by standard standards, but in reality this is rarely found. Therefore, it is preferable to take your measurements and build a pattern yourself.

In order not to be mistaken with the necessary amount of fabric, you can first decompose the details of the pattern on the table and roughly determine what width is needed and what length.

Typically, patterns are placed on a fabric folded in half. This allows you to make parts symmetrical and more even.

Important! Must be allowances for seams. Depending on the texture of the fabric, they are different. On average, if the fabric is not sprinkled, add 1 cm.

Stages sewing apron

So, you can start creating a masterpiece.

At the first stage, we process the breast: we do the top hem and we need to grow it.

Then we connect the breast and straps.

Two parts of the left strap fold face to face, and between them we place the breast. We scribble.

Do the same with the right strap. Then, turning out, we lay the finishing line.

The outer edges are bent inward and also sewn with a finishing line.

Making the bottom of the apron begins with the processing of the bottom of the part.

Then the belt is sewn to the top.

It is important to control that the middle parts match. Then connects the lower part of the apron and breast with the straps and belt. If desired, you can use braid, lace or frills. They are sewn to the bottom of the product, to the straps, making it slightly wider on the shoulders so that the “wings” are formed, as well as to the upper part of the breast.

Apron on the last bell of white guipure

Guipure - airy and lightweight material. It is hardly possible to come up with a more suitable fabric for such a solemn occasion as the last bell before the prom.

An apron will require about 3 meters of fabric 0.6 m wide, and 8 m of sewing for finishing (4 cm wide).

First, cut out the base of the lower part without a frill.

Then do the straps. In this case, the straps will sew.

To make a frill, the length of the straps is multiplied by 1.5. It turns out the drape of the desired volume. Then cut out the breast.

And, finally, we are determined with a belt. It will also be sewing.

As a result, before approaching a sewing machine, something like this is obtained.

First, on the overlock, sewing is attached to the frills of the straps.

Then we connect the straps with the breast.

Sew a frill to the bottom.

Now sew the belt. To do this, its middle must be combined with the middle of the breast and the middle of the lower part. To outline.

In the process of basting to make the planned folds on the bottom. Stitch. And then pave the finishing line.

At the end of work sew straps from behind. And there is a little trick. It is better if the straps at the attachment point to the belt are narrow. Then the frill looks spectacular. If you leave the wide straps, then the frill turns overlapped very rough and ugly.

It is worth noting that in addition to the classic style apron, there are many interesting options. For example, crocheted aprons. Regardless of the technique in which the work was performed: linked from motifs or in a continuous canvas, such models are very unusual and spectacular.

The last bell, as well as the prom night, is a very important and touching event. I want to look decent.And having made an apron for a school uniform with your own hands, you can not just look great, but also feel comfortable.

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