Ironing Board Cover Tutorial

I really don't know how helpful this will be but this project was particularly easy so you probably don't even need a tutorial (I didn't use one) but in case you need a little help, Here you go!

This is what our ironing board looked like:

All gross and nasty because I've been using and abusing it making all of my sewing projects. ALSO the padding was really thin and would create a diamond pattern on anything you were trying to iron. Not fun and really annoying.

Things you will need:

Old Ironing Board Cover

Cotton Fabric (2 1/2 - 3 yards)

Insulated Batting

Yarn/String

Sewing Machine

Mad Skills

STEP ONE:
Remove current skanky ironing board cover

STEP TWO:
Take the padding and trace it onto a large piece of insulated batting. Check the size with your board.

Pretty good. If it's a little big, who cares? Not me. It's just an ironing board.

The batting that I had wasn't long enough so I had get all McGyver on it and sew two pieces together (with out overlapping because that would make indents in the things that you are ironing). I basically zig-zag stitched it together and then zig-zagged it a second time (with smaller stitches) for good measure. You can't even tell it's there under the cover.

STEP 3

Time to make the cover! Take the same piece of old padding and lay it on your fabric. Mark around it with 3 extra inches (this will be what you fold over to make a hem/place for the string).

Then connect your dots. Don't worry if it's not perfect, it doesn't need to be.

STEP 4

Cut that sucker out

STEP 5

Fold over about 1/2 inch all the way around. At this point, you could either iron it (although now you've taken your ironing board apart so that would be a pain) OR you can do what I did and just sew it willy-nilly around. Again, it does NOT have to be perfect just try to keep your hem consistant all the way around.

STEP 6

Fold it over AGAIN this time about 1 1/2 inches and pin it down. Working around the corners will be tricky but don't worry about it looking pretty because this will be on the underneath side of your board so it doesn't matter. Stitch around the whole thing. Make sure to a space open to get your string in there after you've sewn it up! I left a corner open but it looks slightly sloppy. I would suggest leaving a spot open along the long edge.

STEP 7

Use the ever-handy safety pin attatched to yarn/string/whatever you've got laying around to thread it through your new open hem.

Now that you've got it all ready, put your batting piece on your board, cover it with your new cover and pull the strings tightly so it's hugging your board. Tie it tight and admire your handywork!

There you go, that's it. Takes practically no time at all and you've given new life to something! bravo!