Dish Towel Aprons

So I had looked up easy things to sew and found this tutorial from Fynes Designs to make aprons out of dish towels:

Go to blog here http://www.fynesdesigns.com/10-minute-dish-towel-apron/  for more information and the super easy step-by-step tutorial.

It was advertised as a really easy sewing project--all you needed to do was sew in a straight line which I had already accomplished!

First I had to go to the store to find materials; the hardest part was hunting down good dish towels to use. I wanted them to be a cute pattern but not a print that had to be facing a certain way because I realized that when you turn the dish towel into an apron you're having it 90 degrees the way it was designed to hang so cute owl towels were out because they were all flying sideways.

Finally I found a good set of towels at Bed, Bath, & Beyond for $9.99: They are a brown, tan, and a blue color that I thought was very rustically pretty and they all had a pattern that could be flipped any way I wanted.

Next I went to find ribbon. The instructions given tells you to make the ribbons 80" so I whipped out my phone and found out there are 36 inches in a yard so it would have been a little over 2 yards.  But while shopping I realized most ribbon rolls came in 4 yards so if I cut a whole roll in half in would make 2 apron ribbons and just be a little shorter than recommended, so I'll just have to give them to skinny people! (This is how I problem solve!) I bought 3 rolls of ribbon from Hobby Lobby for $3.99 each.

Next I followed the tutorial on the Fynes Design blog (http://www.fynesdesigns.com/10-minute-dish-towel-apron/ )  It was a really easy tutorial to follow, I sewing along the very top of the ribbon and the towel/skirt first taking out the pins as I went and only on my first apron did I make a pretty big mistake: While sewing the bottom of the ribbon I accidentally sewed one of the pleats to the wrong part so it doesn't pleat the way it's supposed to. 

It's sort of hard to see if you don't know what you're looking for (on the right side of the pleat)
but it's so wrong and keeps the skirt from falling the right way

On the other aprons I pinned them and then ironed them before I sewed and I feel it helped the pleats show up nicer and made it a little easier to sew. All in all a really great first attempt! 

One completed apron (It needs to be ironed before I give it away)

I plan on adding a lot of cute things to it like little fabric flowers or buttons and the such so this is not the finished project by any means but I'm antsy to get sewing for real so they'll stay like this for awhile, I'll post an update when I finished enhancing them!

I added a big bow to this one and it's currently my favorite! Don't judge my
messy room!

 So if you were keeping a running total I spent about $10 on the towels and $12 on ribbons bringing this total to just over $4 per apron!! Not bad at all especially after I finish embellishing they are going to be just too cute!!

Any ideas for cute additions? If you try it let me know how it works out!