My New Ironing Board Cover

My ironing board cover was getting very shabby. 

You may have seen it when I've taken photos of my sewing.

I went looking through my stash for a piece 

large enough and decided on this. 

I've had this fabric since 1993 when I made my very first quilt. 

I had it on the front and as the backing.

I'm so happy with how it turned out. 

I've been waiting to use this fabric and 

decided this was the perfect project.

 In case you're wondering, this is my first quilt "Intriguing Illusions". 

It is machine pieced and hand quilted. 

I didn't know about sending quilts off to be quilted back then. 

If I had, that's what I would have done. This was a huge quilt and 

for first time quilting, it took me a long time!

It was an overnight mystery quilt. You were supposed to 

know how to piece to attend. My aunt gave me a crash course 

and I made myself a bag. So that's all the experience I had. 

We were given fabric requirements prior. Then as we 

completed each step, we were given the 

next set of instructions. We went from 6pm until 6am. 

It took me an extra 6 hours at home to finish it 

but considering I was really in experienced, 

I think I did really well!