Steffani Knows All the Chords!

My daughter Vanessa has a good friend, Steffani. She was her friend through high school and they were roommates their first semester at Snow College. She is a real sweetheart and is like a member of the family. She just recently got married and of course it was an opportunity for me to make things!

The colors she has chosen for her house are mainly black, white and red. For her shower I made an apron and some potholders out of some really cute fabric Vanessa picked out. The apron is from a book called More Retro Aprons by Cindy Taylor Oates. The potholders are from a pattern called Handy Heart Potholders by Eva Holen of Classic Crafts. Here is Vanessa modeling the apron.

I don't know if you can see it but the apron has three rows of black ruffles along the bottom and one along the top. The ties criss cross in the back. I was surprised at how fast it went together.

The potholders are made out of the same fabric as the apron. This picture is the front of one and the back of the other. The back has two flaps that you put your hand into. They were surprisingly fast to make as well. Vanessa and Emily bought a bunch of things for her kitchen such as cupcake pans, a cookbook, spices, flour, sugar, etc. and we put them all in a big gift basket.

For her wedding Vanessa and I made a Turning Twenty quilt with black and white print fabrics for the blocks and a red, black and white print for the borders and back. It turned out really cute. This picture does not even begin to show how cute it was. We took it at the last minute before we ran to the reception and the lighting was not very good.