Runaway October

Declan get­ting ready to take pic­tures. Check out the Megan Noël print here.

Declan loves to help these days. Just this morn­ing he picked up a paper towel that the dog had shred­ded (obvi­ously 4 pounds of raw meat a day is not enough) and all I had to do is ask if he would help pick it up. Some­times his help is more of a hin­drance, like doing the dishes. He loves doing the dishes because he gets to play with all the scoops, uten­sils and what­not, includ­ing the nifty lit­tle faucet adapter that turns it into a sprayer. This usu­ally cul­mi­nates in a sop­ping wet boy.

So I made him an apron. I once got the hare­brained idea to make my own cloth dia­pers at one point, so I have yards and yards of PUL lying around. Per­fect! Once again I used only what I had already in the house, so it’s not the pret­ti­est but it works.

It didn’t seem to bother him too much while doing the dishes and it’s fully wash­able — obvi­ously. He wont be able to get it on and off by him­self, as I made it to tie at the neck and waist but it’ll fit as he gets big­ger. Maybe I should try some snaps?

(I fig­ure if it’s going to be blurry any­way I may as well play around with some blur filters)

I think I’m in love with aprons cur­rently. If I’m going to spend the rest of my days around kids, cook­ing and clean­ing, I might as well do it in style right?

I can­not wait until this pat­tern is avail­able: Emme­line Apron

And I’d love to make a whole pas­sel of these and these to have on hand for the kids

I really wanted to join in The Sassy Apron Swap, but I don’t know if I could pull off any­thing wor­thy of send­ing to some­one else with as short on cash as we are. Hope­fully I can get in on the next round.

And this is just plain cute: Apron Evan­ge­lism

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