craftgrrl | aprons and zines (NOT WORKSAFE)

none of these were done with my new ruffle foot, but they definitely inspired me to buy it and make more!

last month a friend and i put together a compilation zine for a femme group that we're part of, and ran around at all the vancouver pride events selling them. i, of course, decided that we needed a fun way to sell them, so i made us cute aprons!

SLIGHT NUDITY, NOT WORKSAFE.

this is the apron i made for myself for the first day to match my tutu i also made. i love the look of the serger stitch contrasting. and then i used the same pink to make myself ruffle butt underwear.

and that pictures shows the colour better too.

i screenprinted the word femme in black onto the change pocket. there are two zippers to hold the money and my smokes, cause my outfit didn't really have any pockets!

and i made two pockets big enough to hold the zines.

this is the apron i made my friend.

it actually had three pockets to hold zines and only one change pocket.

i screenprinted femme in a matching pink, using acrylic ink. i asked about this in this community a while ago. the colour wasn't as deep as i would have liked, but i honestly think that's because i used broadcloth, not cotton fabric. and i didn't bother using the fabric medium either, because this one was finished at 3am the day she wore it.

instead of doing the contrast serger stitching, this apron was all zig zagged over the straight stitching, just to add interest.

the colour in these pictures is a bit wonky, the apron actually perfectly matched her pasties in this picture. (which was a total lucky fluke!)

and then for the next day, i was wearing red pants, so i didn't want to wear the pink apron, so i made a plain black apron.

i put two zippered pockets for change, etc in this one, but i didn't gather the ribbon trim.

and this is the zine we were selling.

while two of us put it together, it was basically my layout ideas. (that sounds really conceited, i didn't mean that. she totally did a ton of work too, it was just my style) as usual, i used photocopied vintage fabric as the backgrounds.

but i think what i was most excited about was having my paper doll in the zine. i changed her a little bit, compared to when i posted her here. i took off her bra and gave her a couple bra options, and added hot pants, a garter belt and stockings.

every cover had a sticker on it that is removable, we just cut around them on the page of stickers and glued the paper backing to the cover.