Sewing Machine Cover

This WAS my hideous sewing machine cover.  Cheap, plastic, falling apart and ugly.

Yesterday both of my boys fell asleep for naps AT THE SAME TIME!!!  I normally take advantage of that opportunity and take a nap myself, but today I was wide awake and wanting to accomplish ANYTHING.  I went into my craft room and looked around to see what I should do and it hit me when I looked over at my sewing machine.  I looked at the old cover and said, "I could do that, I could make a new one."  So, that's what I did.

I took the old cover off, laid it down on my cutting table and took some measurement.  When laid flat, the width was 22 inches and the height was 13.5 inches.  I dug around in my stash and pulled out this fabric to use as my new cover.

I ended up cutting a piece of fabric that was 23 inches wide by 28 inches tall.  I took the piece and folded it in half, right sides together.  I then stitched up either side with a straight stitch.

I then followed up with a zig zag since I was going to leave the edges raw.

I did this to both sides.  Once that was completed, I hemmed up the bottom.  I pressed it an inch, then did a straight stitch, followed by a zig zag stitch, just like I did on the sides.

In order to get the boxed top look that the old cover had, I measured the seam length.  I pressed the corner flat. 

I then took my handy dandy triangle that is a 90/45/45 and used that to make sure I would get a line that wasn't crooked or askew.  The seam was 5 1/2 inches across, so I used that as my measurement.

I did a straight stitch, then followed up with a zig zag like shown.

I clipped the corner off, right above the zig zag stitch. 

I flipped it right side out and put it on my machine.  It fit well, not as well as the old one, but so much prettier.  Had I tapered the sides in, it would have been a perfect fit, but I wasn't that worried about it.

 

I decided not to make a handle hole in the top because I never take my machine anywhere.  Definitely wasn't a necessity for me, so I left it out.  

I am so happy with how the new one looks.  It is SO much better than the old one, which now resides in my trash.