Make It Monday - Small Ironing Board Cover

I know there is a Make It Monday link up somewhere. 

Help please?  Thanks.

The Creative Maven issued a challenge for National Sewing Month - the Sew 5 Challenge.

Sew, I present for your perusal

My new little ironing board cover!!!

[Trumpets doing that duh duh-ta-dah thing]

Technically it's a sleeve board - a gift from one of my sewing mentors, Maisie. [You may read more about her here.] Her son built it for her long, long ago. I use this as my gotta iron something small real quick-like when I am sewing. 

Maisie had covered it, nicely, with a cotton cover sewn by hand.

But the cotton was worn and there was no padding.

The other night - when I was supposed to be sewing something else - I decided NOW is the time to recover this baby.

I put a drawstring casing around the cover so that it can be removed for laundering.

Here's How I Did It

 

 Stanley Kitteh helped me remove the old cover.

Aren't Kittehs the best sewing/knitting/crafting helpers?

 [I'm rolling my eyes too]

I grabbed a scrap of batting, Insul-Brite, the cotton cording that I use in piping and a wide enough plus several inches scrap of sewing themed fabric.

  

Layered, from the bottom up, Insul-Brite and batting.

Plop the Ironing Board on top and trace around the edges. 

(I used a pen cause I couldn't find my chalk marker buried under the mess you see on my work table!)

Cut around the marking leaving about a 1" seam allowance.  

 After flipping the ironing board right side up, with the Insul-Brite and batting on top, I draped a piece of Maisie's original fabric for lining and my fabric over it to make sure I had enough length.

Be sure to add 2-3 inches at each end so that you have enough to "play with" in making the drawstring casing.

Put the wrong side of lining together with batting.

[I wanted the Insul-Brite to be directly under the top fabric. 

Not sure it matters much.]

 

Pin all the layers together right down the middle or pin along the tracing line.

This will keep your layers from shifting as you sew.

 Stitch the battings to the lining only using the tracing lines as your guide.

You want the batting to just cover the top of the board so

trim as close as you dare to the seam.

Put the right sides of the fabrics together.

Stitch around about 1" out from the first seam to form the drawstring casing.

Be sure to leave an opening at the widest end for turning and for your drawstring.

[I stitched one more a seriously teeny distance outside this seam for extra strength in the drawstring casing.]

Trim the seam as close as you are comfortable.

 Flip it right side out.

[Press it if you want]

Topstitch using the battings stitch line as your guide.

 

 Insert your drawstring.

[I used cotton cording used in piping.]

 

 Slap that baby on to the board.

Tighten the drawstring and secure.

[Wrapping it around the legs worked best for me.]

 

 Now, get to work!!!

Holler if you have any questions and please go check out all the super sewing tutorials at The Creative Maven.

Happy 2nd Anniversary to our Will and Jennifer!!!

 Love you!!!

September 18, 1987

September 18, 1987

It was a Friday.

We arrived at Henrico Doctors Hospital in 
Richmond, Virginia at 7am.

Jordan was home having Cheerios with my friend Susan.
Twenty- three years have passed and 

I remember it so vividly.

  

 

IV in. Pitocin drip begins.

Comfy birthing suite.  

Big TV and a remote.

Her father dozed. 

I watched the Today show.

The morning moves along as does our progress.

Nurses buzz in and out.

Doctor pops in.

All is going well.

Lunchtime but not for me.

And I am hongry!

I'm always hongry.

Noon news - nothing dramatic going on "out there."

Getting a little more intense in here though.

I'm calm.  Her father is freaking out.

"Where's that doctor?!!!" 

"She's gonna birth without him here!!!!"

(Nothing worse than a panicked male)

I ask the nurse to give him a sedative.

She promises to do just that if he doesn't hush.

I imagine a scene from 
"Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom."

"Hold him Jim while I shoot him with a tranquilizer dart."

The Nurse suggests that her father hush.

Soap Opera time.

Young and Restless

As The World Turns

Guilding Light begins.

Hi Dr. Miller!

Oh, Josh and Reva are at it again - fighting like the hell cats they are.

Just a couple more pushes.

The Nurse suggests that her father hush!

Dr. Miller beams "Here's Fred."

"I told you not to decorate in pink and green now we have to do it all over!"

The Nurse suggests that her father HUSH!

She is beautiful.

Katharine Grace has arrived.

The years are a swirl of nursery school, pre-school, scraped knees, 

"Bangles, Baubles and Beads" ballet

baseball, Big Girl school, Brownie Scouts, 

Summer Theater, silly giggles, sleep overs, 

mean girls in middle school, 

Tubby the Mouse's "I'm hungry," 

the cute boy down the street spoke to me, 

Sock Club, High School, Theatre, 

Football Fridays with Twizzlers & Fins, 

getting dressed like Cinderella and "bless you!" 

snorts and wheezes, Chamber Choir, Lucky 13,

100 Yorktown

5 am for the big Tournament, wrestling manager, 

"Reggie King poked me in my eye!" cough, cough, 

graduation, Jimmy John's, 

off to college and home again, new hair colors, 

 

Silly shopping trips

And so, so much more!!!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful Baby Girl!

Family Emergencies and UPrinting Giveaway Winner!

Hey Gang!

I'm late announcing the winner cause 

we had a family emergency.

No worries - everyone is okay - now.

Remember when you were a kid and your "emergencies" involved needing a new toy/Barbie/book?  Then as we grew our "emergencies" were more urgent needs of the right dress/shoes/eye shadow. 

Then most of us grew out of needing the materialistic things (unless of course, it was actual material.  

I need fabric - don't you?)

I often miss the days when my children needed a new Barbie or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.  

Or needed the right Tux jacket or dress for choral shows. 

Or needed the latest CD/movie/video game.

Now they are grown and their needs are often very real life sustaining needs - a working vehicle - a job - a safe place to live.  And when I can, I help.  Both my kids are blessed with stalwart and wonderful friends.  Some of whom they have known since Elementary school.  

Some are brand new.

I am thankful for all of them.  So very glad that I too can call upon them to help. 

My friends are fabulous too.  As is Bill Hubby.

Yesterday we combined our vehicles, muscles and nerves of steel to move one of my children from a dangerous situation to a safe haven.  

I was amazed at our swift coordination and the love and laughter that got us through the day.  My muscles on the other hand are not as happy but it was worth every ache and pain to see the relief on my child's face.

Onward and upward my dear little one!

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According to the good ol' random number generator the winner of 500 Business cards from UPrinting is

retrorevival.biz said... Becky - love your new aprons, 

especially the sweet fire engine ones! 

Hope you have a great day:) 

From her bloggie profile: My name is Cindy and welcome to my blog. Here I write about our life on the farm, designing, sewing, entrepreneurism, and obsessive love for all things retro and vintage. When I’m not chasing our beagle puppy or feeding the chickens I’m hard at work running my newly launched company, Retro Revival. I appreciate you following this “virtual scrapbook” of my thoughts and ideas on retro and vintage finds, new projects, designs, sources, and the people and products that inspire my addiction to the past!

 Congratulations to Cindy!

Y'all go check her blog and leave some love.

Oh, and when you say your prayers please join me in giving special thanks for BillHubby, Anne, James, Haley and Will and a couple of wonderful police persons.

Here's a sneak peak at what else I have been up to - with Stanley Kitteh's supervision of course!