I love to bake. But it’s funny how baking makes you fat. So I don’t do it very often anymore. Therefore, my mixer tends to get a bit dusty. And I do love my mixer. It’s beautiful and red and shiny. So I made a pretty cover for it.
Supplies
(Click fabrics for direct links for purchase at Warehouse Fabrics Inc.)
Barber Black/Lipstick - BARBLP
Black Sheeting - SHGBLK
Houndstooth Black - SMHBLK
Batting
Bias Tape - extra wide double fold
Piping
I used 3/4 yard of the bird print, 3/4 yards of the houndstooth, 3/4 yard of the solid and scraps of batting. If you are using a directional print and want to cut the front panel from all one piece, I’d recommend 2 yards. I pieced mine, so there is a seam at the top.
For the curved side pieces, print out the above PDF pieces and tape together where indicated. You don’t have to cut the fabric on the fold. You can just recut the pattern piece on paper on the fold and then apply that to your fabric. I just printed it this way to save on ink and printer paper. Then cut two pieces of fabric, two of lining. For the front piece, cut a rectangle 16″x39-1/4″ of fabric and lining. I used scrap batting. You need one front piece and two side pieces of batting.
The process
This is my mixer. It’s a 5-quart mixer, not the tilt-head kind. It’s taller than the tilt-head. Incidentally, I wish I had gotten the tilt-head. It’s the kind I grew up with and I much prefer it. If that’s the kind you have, you may need to adjust the pattern a bit.
Cut out your pieces and pin the batting to the backs of the outer pieces.
Quilt all of your pieces. I quilted just the outer pieces and the batting. The lining I left separate. I chose to do sort of a sunburst pattern of quilting. It’s easier to see from the back side in the next picture.
Because I did not have a big length of fabric and I had a directional print, I cut my main pieces in two separate pieces instead of one long one. So if you did this, sew it together at the top now.
Apply piping to your side pieces. For this project, I made myself use my new refurbished old Singer. I know every time I talk about using a piping foot, people say a zipper foot is just as good. But I’m telling you, a piping foot is better. I ended up switching to my modern Kenmore and a piping foot for these sections of this project.
Find the center of your side piece by folding in half and mark. Find the center of your front piece and mark, or if you have a seam there, use that. Line the centers up and start pinning the sides to the front. This works better if you use a lot of pins to ease the curves together.
Sew. I am showing myself using the Singer here, with a zipper foot. But it just didn’t do a good job, so I used a piping foot on my Kenmore instead.
Sew your lining pieces together in the same way. this part is easier because there is no piping or batting to contend with. Leave it inside out.
Insert the lining into the outer cover, with the raw seams together. Line up the bottoms and pin. Start by lining up the side seams and then go from there.
Baste around the bottom.
Apply bias tape around the bottom. If you’re brave, you can do this by machine. I have a tutorial here. Despite knowing the steps, I do have trouble pulling this off for any length of fabric, so an alternative is to sew one side by machine and finish the other side by hand, as in the quilt binding in this tutorial.
