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This vintage-style pinny is just the thing for your favourite domestic goddess. Made from a mixture of prints, it has pockets embroidered with fruit and vegetable motifs, cute ric rac edging and long waist straps to tie in a big bow at the back. The stitches used for the embroidery are chain and split stitch, both quick and easy to do. The fabrics can be scraps from your work box, or bits of old linen picked up for next to nothing in charity shops and flea markets.
Make a pinny
Download the fruit and vegetable templates and print out. Mark out a 24cm x 26cm rectangle on white fabric and transfer the motifs, making sure they are not too close to the edges (use the picture of the finished apron as a guide).
Starting with the vegetable design, place the fabric in an embroidery hoop so that the tomato shape is centred within the hoop. Thread your needle with three strands of shade A and fill in the shape of the stem and sepals with split stitch. Thread the needle with three strands of B and outline the shape of the tomato in chain stitch. Work a second row of chain stitch within this outline, and further rows within this, following the contours of the motif until the whole area has been filled in.
Move the fabric within the hoop, if necessary, so that the chillies are in the centre. Using three strands of C, fill in the stems using split stitch, then use shade A to fill in the lower chilli with chain stitch and B for the upper. For the carrot, use shade C for the small piece of stem at the top and shade D to fill in the carrot shape in chain stitch.
Once you have filled in all hoop and fill in the fruit shapes in a similar way to the vegetables, usi
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