https://blog.tessuti.com.au/2020/04/the-tessuti-apron-pattern-and-its-free/

Here is a free pattern. Or do a web search for “cross back apron pattern” and there are lots of choices.

Donna

Also known as a Japanese pinafore apron. I used some youtube videos for the first one I made, and then 4 more were requested from family. I used linen for 4, and canvas for 1 - heavier for grilling. Here's one video, but there are several online.

They are sometimes called a smock or a smock apron. I used to wear one in art class, especially when we were using charcoal and pastels.

I make a really neat apron. It’s a large bib with a hand Towell sewn on the bottom. That way you have your towel to wipe your hands. One year for Christmas I made 25 of them and gave each lady family member one. They make great shower gifts, too. I pick up the fancy boxes from the Dollar General stores. I put kitchen type things in them. I make an apron, some hot chocolate, recipe cards, a cookbook, mug and whatever else I can fit in. Makes a great ladies gift. I am always on the lookout for clearance kitchen things.. so many prety colors to choose from..

tessuti has some great patterns and that apron looks to be another great pattern from tessuti.

I recommend anything from tessuti.

Also something to hang a towel off of is a great addition. This pattern does not have that, but it can be added.

If you want linen I suggest you go to fabricstore.com for their linen. You can also make yourself a couple of linen towels to match.

I am so hard on my aprons that they need to be made of something indestructible, so I just have bib aprons from WM and one that I made from some percale that feels much nicer than those from WM. But, I look like I have been digging the earth and slaughtering animals in my apron after a while. It looks really quite serious and a bit disturbing after a couple of weeks.

Also it gets quite cold and drafty in the house in the winter and I have an apron that has sleeves, is made of a nice fleecy fabric from the prefleece as we know it era. It, too, is indestructible and keeps me so nice and warm when doing messy things, which I do on an almost daily basis.

A traditional Japanese apron is called a kappogi and it is more of blousy vest type of thing and not really a cross back apron. My comfortable winter apron is styled after that traditional apron.

Google "kappogi" and you will see. It really is akin to the smock type of apron rather than the cross back one.

They are both nice apron styles, just different.

I feel naked and vulnerable at the stove without an apron. I did not used to wear one but I do now and I have ruined many fewer clothes by wearing an apron. I wear one to do just about any cleaning anymore. It helps with a lot of things.