USO Aprons- Part 2 (2012)

The Adventure Continues...

After we bought a very large amount of fabric and various sundries for the aprons,
we attacked the project with great enthusiasm. Autumn and I split the piles of
white and blue fabric, washed and ironed it, and then had a cutting out party. 
Four women with shears and rotary cutters - watch out world! Everyone took
their allotted number of aprons to sew and off we went! In the end I believe 
we had around 12 finished USO aprons by the WWII Weekend in June. Four 
more are currently in the works 

Here is what was seen for several months...white and blue and more white and blue!  

USO Apron- Part 1 (2012)

  I left my heart at the Stage Door Canteen
I left it there with a girl named Eileen

I kept her serving doughnuts
Till all she had were gone
I sat there dunking doughnuts
Till she caught on

I must go back to the army routine
And every doughboy knows what that will mean

A soldier boy without a heart
Has two strikes on him from the start
And my heart's at the Stage Door Canteen

 

One summer evening back in 2010, our 1940's group was sitting out under the stars watching Stage Door Canteen being projected on a screen. Lovely indeed and also inspiring. Each year during the WWII Weekend our group participates in various areas. Many from our group run and help at the Spider's Web Bar (more on that here)....us girls are the waitresses there. There was talk about turning our (the waitresses) focus on more of a USO theme (since we really can't justify us being on Guadalcanal :-) ). SO, while watching this movie....one of us (can't remember who) or maybe it hit all of us at once...thought...."WHOA! I LOVE those aprons - let's make our own aprons for the Spider's Web!"  We also read in passing about some of the local USO groups would have their own custom apron...unique to that particular town or organization.

So, the great USO Apron Project of 2011 began...