This was shared with me. It isn't a craft but maybe you will like reading it.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes

Wow, this really brings back memories because I remember my Grandma always wore an apron. One of those full aprons that went the full length of her dress. I think the only time I ever saw her take it off was when she was going somewhere.

I will double that WOW....I ended up with my mom's apron after she died a few years ago.

It still had some stuff in the pocket and pins on it from my mom. I wore it every time I cooked or baked. (Finally I had to breakdown and wash it.)

Now I'm a grandma and that gives a whole new meaning to the apron..From now on, I'm going wear it when the little ones are here, even if I'm not cooking, just to keep adding on more memories!

Thanks for the wonderful thought!!!

Some years back, when this piece came across my computer screen, I saved it, put my grandmother's photo with it, printed it off to put in my family history book. Oh, the memories it brings back.

My grandmother was a farm woman, the apron was a daily garb, clean everymorning, and depending on the work, sometimes changed during the day.
She only took it off for church, goin' to town and social gatherings, outside the family. Inside the family, she was the social director and always wore an apron to keep her dresses clean while in the kitchen, doing meals.

This picture was taken in Sept. 1963, she was 62 and she went 'Home' in 1997, one week shy of her 97th birthday. I have a couple of her aprons, but they're pretty threadb are.

Sharon, reading that bought back alot of memories for me. My grandmother wore one. So I'll get out my aprons and wear them gor my grandkids. Thanks for putting a tear in this old grandmom's eye's. I'm going to save this for my grandkids.

I was not fortunate enough to know either of my grandmothers. They both passed away before I was born. But, I remember my aunts and mom wearing aprons. My first home-ec project was to make an apron. I had not thought about it but when the grandkids and I bake cookies I put on an apron. I forgot once and my grandson told me to put on my 'dress' so the cookies would taste better. His mommy told him cookies always taste better when Nana wears her apron aka dress.

I just hope I am making some happy memories for my family like the ones you all have shared here.

Every pictue I have of my grandmother she has an apron on. This brought back so many memories has did the one about the sunbonnet and the topsy turvy dolls. I went back to Kansas to see my grandmother not knowing that it would be the last time I would ever see her again, a week after our visit I got a phone calling saying she had developed some sort of brain disorder and would never come out of it, she died. The wonderful thing about that last visit she asked me what I would like to have of hers I told her I wanted her aprons when she was all done with them, when I got home and unpacked my suit cases there wrapped up in paper she put her aprons and her set of good silverware that belonged to my great grandmother, I wear one of them every now and then and I use the silver ware every christmas. Oh how I miss her. Wonderful memories today, thank you all.

I had an Aunt who wouldn't be caught without her apron. They lived on a farm and she always had it on for the same reasons listed in the other messages.Nanny also wore an apron. She kept clean with it on. She also carried her crochet supplies in her pocket. When she sat for more than 5 minutes she could do up a few more stitches. Thanks fot he flashback. J.