Scrappy Friday - sewing machine cover

Today I wanted a quick, easy and useful project that would use up some of the small squares of fabric I cut months ago, and that have been sitting in a box waiting to be used since then.

For a while now, I've been thinking of making a cover for my sewing machine.  We have our ceiling fans turning constantly throughout our house, and the dust does get blown onto everything!

So  - remembering I wanted a quick, easy project - I just grabbed the squares and started sewing them together in no particular order:

I sewed them together into strips..

Each strip was long enough to wrap half-way around the base of my sewing machine.

Then I sewed the strips together...

Again in no particular order - easy and quick, not worrying about matching colours or the lines of the squares!

Then once I had large rectangle, I cut a matching sized piece from an old curtain lining I had.

With each rectangle, I folded them in half, right sides together, stitched down the sides, then reaching inside the fabric, I flattened each corner to a triangle and sewed across - to 'box' the corners out. I then cut off the triangle corner beyond my stitching, and repeated with the other corner, same for both pieces of fabric.

I then put the pieces one inside the other - wrong sides together and turned the edges over to hide the raw ends.  And stitched it all closed!

And voila!! A new sewing machine cover - made from lots of very small scrappy squares - and an old piece of curtain lining!

Not bad for a super fast project....

There's my trusty little machine peeking out from it's new cosy cover !

Not bad - for a throw it together job! And it's practical, useful and does the trick!!