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Iron Out a Space Wrinkle



If you are one of the lucky ones, you have a huge crafting & sewing room
where you can spread out and let the creativity flow. Then when you are finished
for the day, close the door behind you, mid project everything still in place...including
your ironing board. If however, you are like me your space needs to do double maybe
even triple duty. Currently my space dedicated to creating is the same VERY small space
that Jeff uses to tie his flies (he is a huge fly fisherman). This means that when I
want to sew I first swap out all the fly tying supplies for my sewing stuff. Obviously
space is an issue for us, so a full ironing board is out of the question.

This green DIY is the perfect solution for me.

Even if you are one of those lucky ones that I mentioned before, this mini folding
ironing board made from an old pillow case, and a TV tray (I re-purposed a pillow case
that out lived it's sheets, and a TV tray that had belonged to my grandmother and never
gets used anymore) will benefit you too because the height of the TV tray allows you to
press seams and smaller pieces of material without having to keep standing up (or in
my case standing up and walking down the hall to where the ironing board
is taking up the living room).


 

You Will Need:

Scissors
Staple Gun
Medium Weight Batting
Old Pillow Case
Folding TV Tray


How To Simply Create
  1. cut out 2 or 3 pieces of batting approximately 2" larger than your tray on all four sides (if you are using light weight batting cut out about 7 pieces)
  2. cut your pillow case along the seams
  3. using a piece of batting as a template cut the pillow case
  4. center batting on TV tray and turn tray upside down so the batting is sandwiched between the tray and the floor
  5. starting in the center, staple batting to the under side (the side facing up) of the tray stopping about an inch from the corners
  6. on opposite side smooth and pull batting so it is taught then starting in the center staple batting to tray pulling batting taught as you go along stopping about an inch from the corners
  7. turn table right side up and smooth material 
  8. turn upside down 
  9. repeat steps 5 & 6 on remaining two sides
  10. trim bulk off corners (leave enough to staple) and carefully pull extremely taught and staple so there are no wrinkles on the sides at the corner of the table (this will require a lot of staples)
  11. repeat step 10 on all remaining corners
  12. trim batting leaving about a .25" 
  13. turn table right side up and center material from your pillow case
  14. turn back upside down
  15. fold material about a half inch and then again over on itself and then again
  16. starting in the center, staple material to table making sure to cover all raw edges of the batting stopping about an inch from the corner
  17. just as you did with the batting, pull the material taught on the opposite side
  18. repeat step 15
  19. smooth and pull material taught then starting in the center staple material to tray pulling material taught and making sure to cover all raw edges of the batting as you work toward the corner. stop about an inch from the corners
  20. turn table right side up and smooth material in all directions so there are no wrinkles
  21. turn back upside down
  22.  repeat steps 15 - 19 for remaining two sides
  23. trim material at corners
  24. pull material taught making sure there are no wrinkles on the edge of table then fold material at the corner under itself and staple securing the material to the table
  25. repeat step 24 for remaining three corners 
  26. turn table right side up, step back, and marvel at your amazing-ness :O)
Approximate Time to Complete: 1 hour


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