ironing board makeover

Even the most mundane sewing project can be a learning experience. I finally got around to re-covering my ironing board. I know, I know, not the most scintilating project, but it had to  be done. As my parents are now gone, we are little by little getting our things out of storage, and one of the things that I brought home last week was my trusty old ironing board. Its a humble, utilitarian thing, an ironing board. I hardly even think about mine, and yet it is an essential tool that I use all the time as I work, whether its sewing a quilt or making a piece of art. Stuff always has to be ironed. Probably every piece of fabric that I use or manipulate comes in contact with my ironing board. And yet I pay it almost no attention. Its probably about 12 years old, as I would have purchased it around the time I got married. I proabably bought at Zellers or someplace cheap like that. And it shows. 

This is one mangy old ironing board. One doesn't expect much from an ironing board. When you buy one, your choices of fabric are usually a) gross or b) tacky, and in my case I chose the lesser of two evils (I believe the other option featured cows and geese) but as time has gone by, the fabric has deteriorated considerably.

And half a year in my dad's garage/barn did not do it any favours, especially since that garage also housed the working table saw and there was a ridiculous amount of sawdust on everything. So this dirty, stinky ironing board cover had pretty much had it. I certainly was not going to use it to press the lovely blue and white quilt squares that I am laboring over these days.  

Anyhow, last night I finally decided that I had to be done. I went online and found a few tutorials (here and here and here) read them over, and just sort of did it. I didn't follow any of them exactly, but it worked out anyways. Its not exactly a precision project, which was nice for a change from the patchwork that I'm doing lately. Also, I didn't want to use up a big piece of quilt batting, so I just used two layers of cotton flannel as padding instead. It worked fine, and suits me well because I don't like a puffy ironing surface. For the cover itself I used some fabric that I got at Ikea awhile ago, because despite the fact that I liked it enough to buy it, I just could not figure out what to use it for. Too busy for a tote, couldn't quite see it as cushions, too heavy weight for clothes or quilts. Turns out it was waiting to be an ironing board cover. 

 So basically with this project I learned not to put things off that seem complicated (because they usually aren't) and not to fuss too much with simple functional things (did no measuring, just eyeballed it). But interestingly, I also learned that an ironing board is a really difficult object to photograph. Its big, and awkward, takes up a lot of space, makes for complicated angles and since you have to get back from it, always shows all the mess in the background. Anyhow, I had learned from the sewing not to fuss too much, so I can't say these are 'great' pictures of my ironing board. But they are functional. As is my newly recovered, non-eyesore inducing ironing board. Now back to quilting. 

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i need to do this too! won't ironing be a bit more pleasurable now? beauty!

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