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Quick And Easy Child's Apron
Quick And Easy Child's Apron
Materials:
1 dish towel
1 hot pad
ribbon--grosgrain or long shoelaces
Procedure:
1) Fold dish towel in half lengthwise from top to bottom
2) Measure 1.5 inches down from the fold and stitch across the towel.
This forms a sleeve for the ribbon.
3) Place hot pad along the center of the dish towel's folded edge.
Stitch the bottom of the hot pad to the folded edge of the dish
towel, stitching over the stitches
already encircling the hot pad. This will be the top of your
apron.
4) Run ribbon or shoelace through the loop already provided on the top
of the hot pad to enable
the apron to be tied around the child's neck.
5) Pull ribbon through the sleeve you stitched across the towel
enabling it to be tied around
the child's waist.
Congratulations! You now have a cute little apron!
SeptemberLady "Born and have lived in Southern MD most of my life. My husband and I just finished building a new home on the family farm, where I hope to retire in the near future.
My interests: Doll collecting, cookbook collector (especially old ones), antiques, family/friend get-togethers, cooking/baking, flower and vegetable gardening, bird-watching."
Memorial Day: Backyard Grilling Memorial Day signals the start of barbecue season. Everyone wants to light that fire and charcoal that first meal. A few tips might pre- vent your entree from becoming a "Burnt Offering."
Read these tips for plenty of grilling ideas, make this year's barbecue perfect!
Growing and Using Garlic Chives Garlic chives, Allium tuberosum, is a hardy perennial (Zones 3-9) that will grow to about 12 inches high. The stems are skinnier and flat, instead of hollow as are regular chives, with greenish white blooms that are about an inch wide and not as rounded. They bloom in the summer rather than spring. The bloom stalks grow much taller than the leaves, sometimes up to 30 inches.
The stems and blooms are both edible and have a mild garlic onion taste. I've noticed many writers will list this as primarily as an Asian herb, as they are also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leeks, ku chai (China) or Nira (Japan), but it has many other uses as well!
The Perfect Porch Swing Perhaps it is the soothing rhythm or the reassuring creak of the porch swing that attracts us. Perhaps it is the companionable silence or quiet conversation. Or maybe swings simply remind us of more genteel times.
Although porch swings can be purchased in a wide range of materials, the most common are wicker and wood. You can also make your own porch swing from one of the myriad of woodworking patterns available at garden centers, hardware stores, or on the Internet.
Memorial Day: Backyard Grilling
Growing and Using Garlic Chives
The Perfect Porch Swing