New Ironing Board Cover, x2

My ironing board cover was getting really nasty.  I've had it for a long time (3 moves worth or so!), and it finally started getting actual holes in it.  It was time to break down and make a new cover.   I actually made this over a month ago before my life started revolving around wiring our house...but that's a story for another day.

While I was at it, I also made a cover for Dolly's ironing board...thank you, Mom, for saving it from my childhood!
Here's the before of my ironing board cover:

Here is Dolly's ironing board, too.  The poor 30+ year old foam pad had pretty much become melded to the  board.

I used the tutorial from Sew 4 Home with a few changes.  I added a second row of piecing just because I liked it.  I also made a second layer on which I appliqued some terry cloth I had from an old project to make a new pad.  The Sew 4 Home tutorial did not include any padding.

Here's a simple photo progression of how I pieced Dolly's board cover:

Adding a little topstitching to hold it all in place:

To make the padding, I just cut it out of the terry with the board on top.  Then, I zigzag stitched the terry to the lining.

The hardest part, making the casing.  I had to use a lot of tucks to get around the curves.

Biggest tip, use safety pins on the ends of your ribbon so you don't pull it all the way through (once or twice!)

Since making this, I have to say I'm not over the moon with how it came out, but it works.  Perhaps it was the second layer, but I can't get the cover on as tight as I'd like.

I did find, however a fun thing under all that foam on Dolly's board:

Aren't these 70s illustrations so fun?  Who wouldn't want to be a "Sunny Suzy?"

Ok, maybe not Dolly all the time.  This is the look I've been getting lately, especially with hands on her hips and a toe tapping in exasperation.

And just to prove that we all goof, here is what happened when I accidentally knocked the hot iron off of the ironing board.

Yes, that would be a permanently burned in iron mark.  Can someone explain why you would want carpet in a kitchen???

This is what my iron looked like afterwards.

After a lot of scrubbing and scraping with a straight edge, I was able to remove all the carpet from my iron.  Any tips for fixing the carpet?  I tried using ice cubes and a fork to lift it up a bit.  I can't wait to see how they ding us for that on our renter's deposit.  Yikes.

Happy ending...we have fun matching ironing board covers.  Which reminds me, I have a pile of ironing to tackle this morning!