The Allspice Apron Collab

Sewing with hand painting for embellishment is today’s mixed media collaboration: I was inspired to create this look when I saw a purse and hat at a trendy gift shop that were unremarkable except the painted work.
To create this look I needed a canvas,
something to paint
Paint
an artist
I chose to make the Hey June Handmade All Price Apron as my canvas. This apron is sized from XS-XL which corresponds to 32-60” hips and designed for a 5’6” adult. The straps can be altered to reduce the pattern down to a child size 8. The pattern doesn’t come with instructions and the edges are finished with one long continuous tape. However there is a tutorial on the blog
https://www.heyjunehandmade.com/allsp...
It required 6.5 yards of bias tape and I came up short. Therefore my apron has a design feature of a bit of ditsy print at the chest. My hope is my artist can bring out the colors of this bias tape.
Next, I consulted my artist and she said if I had primary colors of paint + black and white, she could do anything.
I purchased Tulip brand paint from JoAnn. It’s in the T-shirt section.
https://www.joann.com/tulip-dimension...

Next, we’ll introduce the artist:
Brittany is both a portrait artist and still life artist. She collaborates often with a NYC photographer for her subjects. She paints with traditional mediums as well as digital.
She is an accomplished 3-d crochet artist and claims to do this art in her free time to relax. She teaches painting to under privilege children in the public schools as we as adults at Pinot’s Pallete.

JoAnn fabric mentioned: https://www.joann.com/deep-forest-scu...
$13.19/yd

I am over the moon pleased to credit Lucy Kiely for the fantastic music she gave my permission to use. What a kind thing to do! Thanks Lucy, you are a talent beyond compare!
'Song title/s'
If we never meet again,
Hopeless Dreamers,
Heard it on the radio,
New York City Life, written & recorded by Lucy Kiely © and is used with her permission. Lucy's music is available for puchase worldwide in both Compact Disc and digital format at https://lucykiely.bandcamp.com/music