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Sew Your Own Apron!

1 session, 3 hours

Skill level: confident beginner

Sew your own bib apron from start to finish! Choose from a variety of Japanese fabrics to make an apron that fits your own style. Using Simplicity pattern S9409, you’ll make a classic apron with a roomy front pocket and comfortable crossed straps in the back, finished with clean bias tape edges. It’s perfect for the kitchen, the garden, or any messy project.

Along the way, you’ll learn how to cut fabric using pattern pieces, follow commercial pattern instructions, sew a patch pocket, and apply bias tape, skills you’ll use in many future sewing projects. Patterns are pre-traced in all sizes, so you can jump straight into cutting your fabric.

This is a small class of just 6 students, so you’ll get plenty of one-on-one help. For this workshop, like all our tezukuri sewing workshops, ALL MATERIALS and TOOLS – including a sewing machine – are included in your registration fee!

Participants should have completed our Introduction to Sewing class or be able to demonstrate basic sewing machine proficiency.*

Space is limited in these workshops due to the number of sewing machines that are available. If you prefer to bring and use your own sewing machine, please indicate what make and model machine you have in your registration.

*sewing proficiency skills needed:

• Wind a bobbin
• Thread sewing machine
• Change needle
• Change presser feet
• Sew in forward and reverse directions

Please note that participants in future Tezukuri Handcraft sewing workshops will need to know the skills taught in our Introduction to Sewing series in order to participate. Space is limited. Please e-mail us at programsevents@jcccnc.org if you are unable to register and would like to placed on a waitlist.

Tezukuri Handcraft Workshops at the Center are made possible with generous support from the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation

Tezukuri Handcrafts 2026 Workshop Schedule

About Katie Furukawa Bonifacio and Old River Design Co.

Katie Furukawa Bonifacio (she/her) is a quilter, designer, and educator based out of San Francisco. An alumni of the Nikkei Community Internship program, she has remained active in various Japantown community activities since then. In 2022, Katie began her own handmade home goods business, Old River Design Co. You can see her work at www.oldriverdesign.co