Look what I made!

Well, I finally did it.  I branched out and made something besides a quilt.  I really only enjoy sewing quilts.  That is all I want to sew.  I don't want to sew a button on my shorts.  I don't want to hem my pants.  I don't want to make doll clothes or stuffed animals.  I wish I wanted to make a bag or two but I don't.  I only want to sew quilts.  However, the ugliness of my ironing board cover was really irritating me.  See?  Isn't it gross?

I read several great online tutorials for making an ironing board cover and I had full intentions of following one of those but once it came down to it I just kind of did my own thing.  I flipped that sucker over on it's top (much like I use to flip my bicycle over on the handle bars and pretend I was servicing it) and inspected the underside.  The cover itself is not old or shabby, just stained with water marks so I decided to sew my new fabric right onto the existing cover so I wouldn't have to bother with the cord or elastic or anything of that sort.  I added an extra layer of padding by putting a towel in between the old cover and the new fabric.  Then I pinned the fabric onto the cover and cut out a pattern of sorts.  Once I had that pinned I went to the sewing machine and with my walking foot on I just sewed around the edge of the cover right beside the existing cord.  It wasn't all that easy to do and I don't know if I would do it that way again, but, it's done.  In my head I thought it would take me about 20 minutes {insert huge laugh} but 3 hours later I ended up with this.

The fabric is some Anna Maria Horner I got on sale at Intown Quilters back at the shop hop in March. It's from her Drawing Room home dec collection and the print is called Trellis.

Now I just can't find enough things to iron and even my iron looks happier.  Better get started on that next quilt, goodness knows that will be a good way to get some use out of this new cover.