Kenwood Major cover tutorial

Welcome fellow hustlers (and old followers)! How are you coming along with your to-do lists? I know I'm behind... And as of today we are 2/3 of the way there. Yikes!

One of the items on my list is a cover for a Kenwood Major stand mixer for my sister-in-law. I have one of these too. If we had pretty KitchenAid mixers we probably wouldn't want to cover them up. But these are more utilitarian and less pretty.

Now, my sister-in-law was quite specific about how she wanted it and it wasn't quilty! What?!? Not everyone wants their house quiltified? Nope! She wanted it plain and linen. Well, I guess I can oblige...

So here's what I came up with and below I'll share with you how I made it.

Materials
Main fabric, lining fabric and interlining (or fusible fleece) - 2 end pieces 10.5" x 14.25" and 1 body piece 17" x 37" of each.
Ribbon - 4 pieces approximately 15" each

All seam allowances are 1/4" unless otherwise noted.

1. Make template for curving top corners of end pieces. I started curving about 4" down from the top and ended the curve about 3" in from the side. Cut both top corners off all end pieces.



2. Baste the interlining fabric (or fuse the fleece) to the back side of the main fabric 1/8" from the edge. The linen I was working with was difficult, so I cut the interlining to size and basted it to the linen before cutting it.



3. Attach the ribbon pieces about 6.5" up from bottom of end pieces and secure ends so they stay away from the seams.



4. With right sides together line up the end of one long side of the body piece with one side of an end piece. Backstitch at beginning. Backstitch over ribbon ends when you get to them. When you get to the curved part make sure your needle stops in the down position and carefully curve the straight edge of the body piece along the end piece, stopping to readjust the fabric as needed.






5. At the end the body piece should be too long. Don't worry about this. Backstitch to secure end of seam.



6. Cut off excess fabric from the body piece. Press seams toward body piece.



7. Repeat step 4 with other end piece of the main fabric. The body piece should be the right length now.
8. Repeat step 4-7 with the lining fabric pieces. Press seams toward end pieces.
9. With right sides together pin main and lining pieces together along the bottom edge. Sew around the edge leaving a 4-5" opening for turning. (Optional: assemble with wrong sides facing and close up by binding the bottom edge.)






10. Turn right side out, press and topstitch along bottom edge (this will also close the opening used for turning) 1/8" and 3/8" from bottom edge.






11. Press and put to use!

There, one Christmas gift crossed of the list. So many more to go...

Thanks for stopping by!

Marit

I heart IKEA (fabrics)

Even though we live in a big house, our baby girl does not have her own room. The house has been remodeled from single family to duplex to single family to duplex and will soon be converted back to single family. We don't need two kitchens, two dining rooms and two entry halls. What we do need is more bedrooms!
Selv om vi har et stort hus har ikke lille gullet eget rom. Huset har blitt ombygd fra enebolig til tomannsbolig til enebolig til tomannsbolig og vil snart bli enebolig igjen. Vi trenger ikke to kjøkken, to spisestuer og to entreer. Det vi trenger er flere soverom!

Until we get the remodelling done (next year, we hope), baby girl has to sleep in a "public" area of the house. We needed something to screen her part of the room, but all the folding screens we found were more expensive than we liked for a temporary solution and hubby didn't feel like a carpentry project.
Frem til vi får bygget om (neste år) må gullet sove i et "offentlig" område av huset og vi trenger noe å skjerme av hjørnet hennes. Alle skjermveggene vi fant var dyre og mannen hadde ikke lyst til å snekre noe.

So what did we do?
Så hva gjorde vi da?

Took one of these:
Tok en slik:

Added some of this:
Pluss noe av dette:

And ended up with this:
Og endte opp med denne:

Okay, maybe not the fanciest of all screen walls, but it will certainly do the job and I love the colors in the fabric. So much I will probably use it for color inspiration for baby girl's future room. The top photo probably shows the colors most accurately...

Ikke den flotteste skjermveggen, men den gjør jobben og jeg syns fargene i stoffet er fine (øverste bildet er mest korrekt). Så jeg kommer nok til å bruke det som inspirasjon for fargene i hennes fremtidige rom.

And while in the IKEA fabric department I picked up this fabric I blogged about last Thursday. The plan is to possibly "color" in some of the designs with embroidery and/or fabric paint/markers. Here are some outtakes of the design:

Mens vi var i stoffavdelingen kjøpte jeg også noe av dette stoffet jeg skrev om på torsdag. Planen er å fargelegge noen av delene med broderi og/eller stoffmaling/tusjer. Her er noen av skissene på stoffet:

Farm scene

Wind mills

Teepee, igloo, candy factory (?), bird singing about ice cream (?)

Rockets, planets and a light post...

Cute little doggy!

There are flowers growing out of the down spout!

Large castle and fort

Boats, a crab and some cherries...

Can you believe the variety of doodles they fit on one fabric?!? And this is only a small part of it! Now I just need to find out what to do with this fabric and then find the time to do it!

Kan du tro alt det rare de har fått plass til på ett stoff?!? Og dette er bare en liten del av det! Nå må jeg bare finne ut hva jeg skal gjøre med stoffet og så finne tid til å gjøre det!

How do you feel about IKEA? Sometimes I love it, sometimes I don't...

Hva syns du om IKEA. Noen ganger elsker jeg det, andre ganger ikke...

Linking up to the Let's get Acquainted! Monday Link Up at Plum and June.