Dress up your craft room
with an attractive cover for your ironing board. Sew a casing around a length of
your pretty home decor fabric. Add
a drawstring. Now you have crafted
a beautiful ironing board cover.
1. Measure your ironing board. Cut fabric into rectangle 8.5” wider
and 10” longer than your board.
Taper slightly at one end to mimic the shaped end of ironing board.
2. Press raw edge under 1/4” all the way
around. Fold again 1/2”. Leaving 1” open at center of short
square end. Stitch down to form
casing.
3. Using large safety pin,
feed string through casing.
4. Pull to distribute loose but even
gathers.
Position on top of ironing
board. Tighten gathers. Secure loose ends by simply tying into
a bow.
Materials List:
1 3/4 yard heavy 100%
cotton fabric
3 yards cotton string
It makes your ironing so
much more fun!
Tips and Tricks
For extra cushioning, this
pretty new cover can be placed right over your existing pad.
A tabletop ironing board
cover is the perfect choice for your craft area. It is smaller and easy to store. Just adjust the dimensions to make the cover.
I love my Rowenta 1500 Watt
Steam Iron. Next to my sewing
machine, it is the workhorse of my craft room.