Garden Lover's Apron Tutorial Embroidery Project

This is a Harvest apron purchased on Amazon.  To me, it was unique in its design as I had never seen an apron with this huge pocket to make it so much easier to collect the produce from your garden.  This huge pocket also provided a great deal of blank space which just begged to be embroidered.  This project is to show how easy it is to use the tubular sewing capabilities of your multi-needle machine.  Any of the designs shown related to this project would be good on this apron.  If you would rather make your own apron see our project Sassy Garden Apron.  It is a different type of apron, but any of these designs would be appropriate for it and it is quick to make.

Print out your purchased designs or stitch out samples and lay out on the apron to see which you like best.

Cut a piece of Fusible Tear-away stabilizes with a few extra inches cut on each side to allow for variations in hooping.

Turn the pocket of the apron inside out and press the fusible tear away inside the pocket.  It does not all have to be fused around the edges but will be securely fused in the embroidery area.  This is much easier to do than trying to line up your hoop while keeping a loose stabilizer lined up with the hoop and placement marks you will be making.

Measure between the hooks on the front of the pocket to find where to draw a vertical centerline with a heat removable pen.  You do not want to be hooping through the elastic nor having those pocket hooks inside your hoop. So, see where the hoop fits comfortable up next to the elastic and determine you horizontal and draw a line across the pocket. 

When placing the bottom hoop inside the pocket it helps to have the screw to adjust the hoop at the top of the pocket.  Due to the thickness of this fabric, you may want to tighten the screw with the screwdriver that comes with the machine. 

To remove the table from the sewing machine; turn the machine off; slide the pantograph all the way to the back of the machine.  Loosen the screws 5 or 6 turns that are underneath the front of the table; with two hands lift and remove the table.  Turn the machine on and the pantograph will move back to its normal position.

Insert the hoop into the machine so that the fabric behind the hooped pocket falls into the space below the sewing arm.  Reach in under the hoop and make sure all straps and fabric are free and will not interfere with any part of the machine as the hoop moves back and forth.

Follow the color chart to embroider your selected design.

Run your iron over the fusible tear away stabilizer to loosen it from the fabric and remove it from the design.

Congratulations, you have completed your Harvest Apron.  If this was the first time you have done tubular sewing I hope this project answered any questions you may have had about the process.