DIY | CURLING IRON COVERS

Years ago I saw this article on LuckyMag.com and decided that curling iron covers were the best idea ever. But they were sold out. Everywhere. Fast forward two years and I'm at a craft fair where they are selling something similar, but not as cute. Traci and I decide that we're going to make our own. But we often add many things to our "we could make that" list...and guess what? we never do. 

Luckily, we found ourselves at Joann's looking for some faux leather for another project when the lights go out (unlucky) in the middle of the store which is where we were standing. Traci doesn't really do well in the dark, even the semi-dark. So we made our way to the outer walls of the store where their emergency lights were on - and we found ironing board covering! 

We bought it and whipped up four curling iron covers in one night. Fastest DIY sewing project ever. Of course we also made one for Joyce! We must be secretly obsessed with polka dots because we found all these cute prints in our fabric scrap box.  

Supplies

• Ironing Board Covering (18.5 inch cut will make four covers)
• Fabric of your choice for the outside of the cover
• Canvas for the flap (but you could use other fabric as well)
• Hot glue gun or E6000 glue
• Velcro
• Scissors
• Quilting mat and shears (optional)
• Sewing machine

First cut your piece of ironing board covering into 4 pieces. They each should measure about 18.5'' x . Then cut out a piece of patterned fabric (about 1/2 inch taller and wider than the ironing board covering piece. 

Sew a line down the top side of the fabric to make it easier to sew the two pieces together later on.

Then fold the fabric in half with the shiny silver on the inside and sew the bottom and side with a 1/2 inch seam. 

Flip it inside out and then sew your patterned piece the same way. 

To make the flap we used canvas because we wanted it a little more sturdy. Cut out 2 00x00'' pieces. Sketch rounded corners and sew them together with a 1/2 inch seam. Cut out little triangles around the curved edges.

Flip the cover inside out and sew a 1/4 inch seam across the open edge.

Place the ironing board covering inside your patterned fabric, making sure the right side of the fabric and the shiny silver side of the ironing board covering are facing each other/touching.

Stick the flap between the outside & inside pieces.

Sew around the top starting on the side with the flap. make sure to leave a gap to flip it inside out. about 3 inches

Sew around the top to close the hole. I sewed all the way because I liked the way it looked.

Handstitch or use a sewing machine to stitch on the velcro pieces. (We tried a hot glue gun and E6000 glue which held for a while but eventually fell off.)

Aren't they so cute! We only paid $1.20 for the entire piece of ironing board and found the rest of fabric scraps at home! 

xoxo, allison & traci

p.s. we made a penguin one for Traci's mom since she's obsessed with them.