Matching Mom and Daughter Aprons

I've never been big on aprons... until my aunt found a vintage style pattern that I fell in love with! She made a few suggestions (she's a connoisseur and lifetime wearer) and this was the result. It's completely reversible and the ruffle at the bottom is actually a flounce. To make it reversible, I just put the buttonholes on the apron, and the neck strap has several buttons on each side (so you can remove if you want to reverse the apron, but also to make the size adjustable).

The child's apron is slightly different. I recently visited a craft show with my mom and one of the vendors was selling these adorable child's aprons. It's a simple smock style apron, but the straps are a satin ribbon. And instead of sewing the ribbon in place, there's a casing along each underarm side. Insert the ribbon at the bottom side opening, send it out the top at one neck side, then send it back down the other neck side, and out the opening at the other underarm. To secure, just pull the sides - it adjusts the entire apron to grow with your budding chef! Sounds a little confusing, but it makes the apron completely adjustable, and oh, so easy!! Just be sure you have a really looooong ribbon!