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Sew Sweet Machine Cover

Designed by Bev Shenefield

Your sewing machine is an important part of your life -- almost a member of the family. Give it the attractive cover it deserves!

Skill Level
Beginner

Sewing Machine Cover Size
Approximately 17 1/2" x 12 1/2" x 8"

Materials

  • 1 yard prequilted fabric
  • 1 yard coordinating check or plaid
  • Gray felt 9" x 12"
  • White felt 9" x 12"
  • 4 yards 3/4"-wide ruffled white eyelet trim
  • White crochet cotton
  • Gray and white 6-strand embroidery floss
  • 1 (1/4") two-hole black button
  • 6-8 assorted buttons in coordinating colors
  • Fabric glue
  • Craft glue
  • Scraps of fusible transfer web
  • Regular and large-eye embroidery needles
  • White all-purpose sewing thread
  • Basic sewing supplies and tools
  • Click Here for the Template (PDF Format)

Instructions
Step 1. Trace and cut ends for machine cover as directed on pattern. Cut one piece each 18" x 23 1/2" from prequilted and coordinating check or plaid.

Step 2. Trace appliqué shapes on paper side of fusible transfer web. Cut out leaving roughly 1/4" margin around traced lines. Following manufacturer's instructions, fuse to selected fabrics. Cut out on traced lines.

Step 3. Referring to photo for placement, arrange appliqués on one end of 18" x 23" prequilted piece, which will be the front portion of the machine cover. Fuse in place.

Step 4. With regular embroidery needle and 2 strands of white embroidery floss, work buttonhole stitch around pincushion and scissors handles. With 2 strands of gray embroidery floss work buttonhole stitch around thimble, spool and scissors blades.

Step 5. Referring to photo for placement, trace needle and pins on machine cover front. With 2 strands of gray embroidery floss, embroider needle, lines on scissors blades, pins and line on thimble. To make French knots on thimble, wind 2 strands of gray floss around needle four times.

Step 6. With large-eye embroidery needle and white crochet cotton, add rows of thread to spool. Referring to photo, arrange white crochet cotton, as shown on machine cover, through needle. Couch in place with white all-purpose sewing thread. Couch strands of white crochet cotton on pincushion.

Step 7. With hand stitches, sew a strip of 3/4"-wide white eyelet trim to lower edge of pincushion.

Step 8. Pin 3/4"-wide white eyelet trim around the two prequilted curved ends of machine cover (not across bottom edge). Find center top of each curved end and centers of 23 1/2" sides of prequilted cover. Pin ends in place and machine-sew.

Step 9. Find center top of each coordinating check or plaid lining for ends and center of each 23 1/2" cover lining. Pin and sew as in Step 8.

Step 10. Place lining in cover, wrong sides together. Pin lower edges together. Starting at center back, pin 3/4"-wide white eyelet trim around lower edge of machine cover.

Step 11. From coordinating check or plaid cut two border pieces each 5" x 18" and 5" x 8". Cut four 3 1/2" pieces of 3/4"-wide eyelet trim. Sew to each short end of longer strips, aligning at one end only. Sew shorter border pieces between longer border pieces, making a ring.

Step 12. Right sides together, pin border ring around bottom of cover, matching seams of cover and border. Be sure eyelet-trimmed ends are the ends sewn to the cover, not the untrimmed ends. Sew border strip to cover.

Step 13. Turn border to inside of cover. Turn raw edge under 1/4" and stitch by hand over seam.

Step 14. Starting at center back of cover lining, pin 3/4"-wide white eyelet trim around entire lower edge of machine cover. Machine-stitch in place.

Step 15. Position 1/4" black button on scissors blades and glue with craft glue. Referring to photo, glue other buttons in place.

Step 16. Fasten turned-under ends of pincushion eyelet trim in place with fabric glue.

Designer's Note: Cover is sized for an open-arm machine used on a table. If machine is in cabinet, omit lower coordinating border and finish lower edge with eyelet trim. Size can also be altered by cutting cover section smaller so that coordinating border can still be added.

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