To begin making my apron, I first found an already cut pattern on the table that roughly matched my dimensions and folded it in half, placing it on top of a new folded sheet of paper. I lined up the fold on the already-cut pattern with the fold on the new paper, before measuring and marking an additional inch-wide border around the pattern. This enabled me to add a double fold hem of about half an inch so that I could fold the edge of the fabric over twice. I then cut out my new pattern and pinned it to the tarp to hold it in place while I cut the shape around it out of the tarp.

Next, I used the Singer heavy duty sewing machine to start assembling the apron. I pinned each edge so that I could sew a half-inch hem, then folded it over another half-inch and sewed it once more to create a double fold hem. I repeated this process for all sides of the apron. Although I tried to stylize the bottom of the apron by using a zig-zag stitch for the second fold, the machine ended up creating a somewhat sloppy pattern, so I opted for a simple straight line stitch when hemming the rest of the sides.

Yay finishedFinally, I added the straps onto the apron. Because I was worried about a strap tied into a bow coming undone, I decided to do a x-shape instead (I forgot to take a picture of this part so I made a sketch instead). To create the straps, I first hemmed each one so they wouldn’t fray, before affixing them to the apron itself with a box stitch. This part was especially challenging when working with the tarp, because it was difficult to create precise and uniform boxes through the dense fabric

The finished product! I’m a little sad no one used the ‘wich’ part of ‘sandwich’ written on the tarp so we could be matching though.