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Posted: Jan/17/2007 5:39 AM PST
Aprons I don't think our kids know what an apron is. The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven. It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears. From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven. When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids. And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls. In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees. When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner. It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes. REMEMBER: Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jan/17/2007 1:12 PM PST
I remember aprons. I make them for my granddaughters and daughters. They all like the ones patterned after the aprons worn by fast food workers. I haven't made one for a couple of years. Maybe I will do that again. |
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Posted: Jan/17/2007 1:32 PM PST
I still have some of my grandma's aprons and I have one that one of my boys made for their grandpa because it has that stitched on it. I didn't even remember it, but I recognized the fabric. That would make a cute kitchen plaque on an apron shaped piece of wood. Or maybe with an aprons on the clothesline border. I wear cobbler aprons I have left from work sometimes. I wore the other style when I worked at the bakery. Great for a convenient handtowel, too! EDIT: Oh yeah! I forgot! When I worked at the treatment center we had the kids come in the kitchen to learn that aspect of life skills. They wore the plain white aprons and when they got ready to leave to go home we'd all sign an apron for them to take home with them. They liked that. |
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Posted: Jan/17/2007 1:37 PM PST
I still have a few. I have a Christmas apron that I wear when preparing the turnkey etc. |
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Posted: Jan/17/2007 1:53 PM PST
i have some of my grammie's aprons |
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Posted: Jan/17/2007 3:08 PM PST
My mom still wears one on occasion. I just love them! |
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Posted: Jan/17/2007 5:42 PM PST
my grandmother used to make her own. they looked like the one Maggie posted but my granny edged all of hers in rick-rack, she didn't gather them at the waist and she always sewed on two patch pockets on the front of the skirt part. she used whatever was on sale at the fabric store for cloth and starched the H*ll outta them. she put one on first thing in the morning after getting dressed and wore it all day long. |
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Posted: Jan/17/2007 5:53 PM PST
I remember the apron. My grandmaw worn them from sun up to bedtime. What fon memories. |
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Posted: Jan/24/2007 12:31 PM PST
My mom always wore an apron even up until the '90's when she died. She had a few fancy ones that she would save for Sundays. After she cooked sundays dinner in one of the work horse apons, she would take it off and put on the fancy apron to serve Sunday Dinner. Thanks for the Memory swindyi |
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Posted: Jan/24/2007 2:03 PM PST
I love my aprons... I wear one almost all the time..I have a gardening apron that my friend, an ursline nun made for me that says ....gardeners are the best friends with a hand watering the plants... I have one that I wear in the wood shop...and I have several that I wear when I am baking, cooking.... I have made a friend of mine several aprons... She is a chef in Fla...She always lets me know when hers are getting shabby.. Peggy |
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