Kids Cupcake Apron

Since my two year old LOVES watching me in the kitchen especially when I am baking I knew I had to make her an apron of her very own when she is "helping" me bake. She likes trying on my apron which is way too big!!

Helping usually means I give her a bowl, a whisk, some flour to stir and play with until she is bored with that ( which she usually never gets bored I had no idea how entertaining those three things could be) and I will add water and she will make an even bigger mess. But she has a blast and isn't trying to stick her hands in my mixer. 

Sewing is my other hobby besides baking and although I am not the craftiest of crafty people I have been sewing for a long time and am halfway decent at it. So I looked around online for a FREE kids apron pattern ( I probably could have made one myself but I still like to go off patterns, I am not that great at making up my own) and I found this apron here at Living with Punks that came with the matching pot holders and oven mitts and this pattern here at Michael Miller fabrics Blog.  I liked the pocket on the pattern from the Michael Miller blog, but I liked the straps from the Punks' apron pattern. So I made a combo of the two and I cut out the pot holders and oven mitts but have so far only made one. The pot holders are on the smaller side ( definitely fits a two year olds hand) but not any bigger. I might see if I have extra fabric and make bigger mitts and pot holders. 

The Pocket is trimmed with the contrasting fabric which I thought looked like cupcake sprinkles

This is the back side which technically makes it a reversible apron but I didn't add a pocked to this side

The potholder was tricky sewing the bias tape around the corners. The back side is terrycloth and the sewing looked kind of sloppy there. So I just took a pic of the front.

Here it is hanging on her kitchen just waiting to be worn...time to convince the two year old to model it for pics....

Somehow I convinced her to wear it ( took some bribing but once it was on she wouldn't take it off.) "Can you smile for mommy in your pretty apron?"  "NO!"...

"Pleaaassseeeee can you smile for mommy?"  " NOOOOO!"

ahhhh age two...

Finally she went over to her kitchen and was standing on one of her stools to model the apron. You can see this is for a 2-3 year old size and not much bigger. I think I will be ok with making her bigger ones in the future

FINALLY she gives me a silly smile. My lil goofball.

This was an easy project to do for the most part. Doesn't take much fabric and there are a ton of cupcake prints out right now in fabric stores that I might just make one my size!

And I promise I will be blogging more baked goodies soon. I have been baking just haven't had time to blog!!