Blue/Green Apron - Bias Tape Application

I finished making the bias tape and have pinned it onto the apron. I sewed a little over a foot of it in place - you can see it on the lower left where there are no pins for a short section. Because of the way this apron is designed, the hem is actually one continuous edge, such that when I attached the bias tape it ended where I began, without needing to stop and start a new section anywhere else. The bias tape is dark blue, but because the apron has much lighter blue and green tones it ends up looking almost black in this photo.

In related news, I have enough bias tape left over from this project that if I'm fine having a dark blue finish on an otherwise lavender and cream design, I won't have to use commercially produced bias tape on my quilted vest. I care about that because the commercial stuff is a polyester/cotton blend, and I want the vest to be all cotton if I can. Since I'll be using it for exercise (longsword class), I want everything to be cotton because those fibers don't hold on to odor the way polyester does. If the color ends up bothering me, I always can make a new set of bias tape in whatever color I want, now that I know how.

The back of a blue/green apron with a design reminiscent of the interiors of seashells, with dark blue bias tape pinned in place along the edges.

 

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