aprons

Nicola has a thing about aprons.

She made lots of them out of a pretty provençal yellow with red pattern material which were worn on Saturday night at her party by the various young helpers. She also made tablecloths of the same material. The aprons were all hanging on the washing line but by the time I’d got my camera, she had taken them down, folded them and put them away. She kindly offered to hang them all out again for me, but I thought that would be asking too much with all the clearing up she has to do.

So instead, I have taken a picture of her wearing a de Cecco coffee apron, another pic of two more that are hanging in the kitchen and three more hanging in the garden toolroom.

The middle apron she tells me is made from a striped Laura Ashley fabric that she bought from the very first shop in South Kensington (oh, my, I remember it well !) where she worked for a while. The apron to the right of it was made by her Italian mother-in-law and bears the legend ‘la mamma è mia’.

A little while ago, Celia asked me if I would like an apron that had belonged to Justin’s late father. I said I would and that I would cherish it. It is made of a very coarse-woven white linen with just a few dark stains near the hem. I’ve put it on my craft pile and I will definitely be wearing it when I do my crafting.