Sewing covers for things - 20/9/11 & 21/9/11

More adventures with the sewing machine (and projects I've been meaning to make for a while).
Yesterday I made a cover for our printer. It's not a complicated shape, just a cuboid, and it lives under the bed, but the box it came in doesn't. So I wanted to make a cover to stop it getting scratched and to keep the cables together with the printer.

Laid out flat

With the printer

The cover is just a basic cuboid net made out of pink cotton as you can see. The main part wraps around and fastens with velcro, and the sides tie with ribbon at the top of the printer.

The cable tidy loops also fasten with velcro and the ribbon from the sides thread through them for extra security.
It it a simple shape, the long wrap is all one piece and the sides are sewn on separately. All the pieces were hemmed using the hemmer foot so I didn't need much seam allowance.

Today I tried to make a cover for the sewing machine so that the case doesn't get scratched (and so that people don't try to pick it up by the handle!) I used some cloth which I have which has two layers and is an iridescent purple colour. The underneath layer has quite thick threads, so it frays quite easily but the two layers are woven together using regular stripes which makes it easy to cut straight lines!

Fabric ready for cutting

Side pieces cut out

I thought I could use the hemmer foot but the fabric was too thick to fit into it so instead I pinned and sewed them with the normal foot:

Pinned edge

Hemmed corner finished

So here is the finished cover
The only problem is that I didn't leave enough seam allowance so it doesn't actually fit properly around the machine. It ties around with ribbon so it fits around but doesn't cover all of the corners.

I'm going to cut it in half and add a strip of contrasting fabric so that it fits properly. I might see if I can find some aida band and add small motifs to make it pretty.