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.
