in this video I'm going to show you how to make this ironing board cover this is
the current situation that we have here it is looking pretty bad it's time to
update it and make it look ten times better there are a couple of ways you
could do this you could take off your existing cover and you could make a
pattern out of this I am going to show you the other way so I have taken the
top off my ironing board and now I'm going to flip the board upside down so when I was
looking for fabric for this project I went into my upholstery section because
I knew I was going to get the length that I needed because if you use cotton
and it's for a big size ironing board like this you would get away with cotton
if you were using a small like desktop ironing board but mine is a full size
ironing board so I recommend that you check out your upholstery section in the
store that you're looking in now I got half a meter of this fabric and I'm
going to flip my ironing board onto it so the fabric is right sides down so the
printed side is facing the floor and the wrong side is facing up so I only just
have enough at the ends there if you can see so I'm going to go round so I'm
going to measure three inches away from the board and as you can see this is the
other end in this part of video I am going to recommend that you do four
inches around because for mine it's just barely hugging around here and I would
have liked it to have hugged around a bit more
so I recommend 4 inches not three so as you can see I have taken my measurements
and at this point I want you to be doing 4 inches around the whole of the ironing
board
now I've got my pinking shears and I'm going to cut all the way around the
fabric so we have the new ironing board cover face down and I'm just going to fold
them over and we're going to cover these raw seams first so we're just going to
create a hem now you're going to have a little bit of a problem when you go
around these corners you just going to have to fold them over and just make it work
don't forget this is on the back side of our fabric so don't get too hung up on
about it looking perfect so just get the iron and just go around and just create
that that hem so as you can see I have had to pinch it where it's gone round
curves and don't worry about that that's perfectly fine if yours is looking like
that too now I'm going to take the ironing board cover over to the sewing
machine and just do a stitch all the way around here just securing it shut you're
going to be using a regular 90/14 needle and some polyester thread and you're
going to start with the straight stitch that's selected on your sewing machine
and we are just going to sew all the way down this hem always remember to
reverse at the start and go all the way around
now I'm starting to come to these curves and I have this amazing thing on my
machine which is the pivot key which as you can see it automatically raises this
foot up and down so I'm not having to go back here and raise it up and down so I
can maneuver my foot around with ease
so with this bit of curve we want to stop and start and just maneuver around
them curves just like so it's really easy don't fret about it
it's an ironing board cover there's better things in the world to be
worrying about! this is the next stage we're now going to create a casing for
our cording this is called rat's tail parachute cord whatever you want to call
it so your casing or whatever you're using for your string your casing needs
to be big enough for it to actually go through because we are going to now
stitch this down into place and as you can see here my corners are still folded
over so as we sew them down we just have to be careful about that and just make
sure that it doesn't cause any problems when we come to want to put our
cording in so we'll go around pressing with your iron and attach some pins to
that so it all stays in place and now we'll take our ironing board cover over
to our sewing machine once more we are going to sew around our needle in the down position
and we are going to leave an opening at the back so we can get the cording
through so we can tighten it up later on when we finished our project
so we're literally just going to go very tightly to this end here and go all the
way around and don't forget to reverse and then continue as you can see it's
right along the edge there and I'm going to go all the way around go as fast as you
are comfortable with guys
and just lift it up every so often as you are going around this corner you may have to
pull it through like so and go all the way around it doesn't really have to
look that pretty at the end of the day it's on the backsides of your ironing
board and hey who looks under there?
once you've sewed all the way around remember you are going to leave an opening
in order to push that cording through don't sew it all the way
up now grab yourself a safety pin attach one end of your cording to the end of it so
it's safe and through this hole here you're going to start feeding your cord
all the way around now you don't want to watch me do this it's totally boring and
I'll meet you back here when I'm done so once we have our two cords threaded all
the way through you can have a little bit of bunching going on around here so
just even things out and now we are ready to go over to our
ironing board and here we go here is the new ironing board cover what do you guys
think so just to let you know that if I was to do this again I would increase
the width around my ironing board to a four inch increase around the sides
from the beginning because on my board it's only just grabbed to the side I
would have liked it to have curled around much more so another thing to
bear in mind is that ironing boards will vary on their thickness here so just
bear in mind when you are doing yours or just make it at a four inch diameter
around your ironing board I was super impressed of how quickly
this project got put together if I wasn't filming it would probably take me
I don't know I want to say about an hour to complete which is super fast and
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