Ironing Board Makeover

Bonnie over at Cotton Way declared October Ironing Board Makeover Month and that was just the motivation I needed to not only make a new ironing board cover but to start this blog that I have been thinking about starting for months!

As you can see by this before picture, I was in desperate need of a new cover for my ironing board!

I started by looking through my stack of scraps from previous projects and came up with this: a strip of pieced backing from a quilt! Perfect.

Then I found some left over backing fabric from another quilt that matched.

The fabric is Hometown from Sweetwater for Moda from a few years ago. I used it to make some quilts and pillows for our guest room makeover (which is still not completed!).

I started by sewing the pieced strip between two strips of a leftover jelly roll to give it a bit of pop.

Next I sewed two pieces of the leftover backing to each side of the pieced part.

 Then I used the old ironing board cover as a template and cut out the pattern. I then repeated the process with cotton batting and muslin for the backing.

I sandwiched the three layers and used bias tape for the binding.

After I got the binding on, I threaded a strip of 1/8" elastic through the binding and tied it up after putting the cover on the ironing board.

And here's the finished product! Huge improvement!

And another close up....

Thanks for the inspiration, Bonnie! Now to iron a few shirts for my boys with my new cover :)...