Resurfacing

Not me, of course. I won't resurface to normal society until the temperatures around here are reliably and consistently down in the 80s, well away from the current triple digits.

No, I'm instead referring to this:

My sewing room does double duty as an ebay seller's stock room.

 The bottom (right-tilting) patch was peeling up; a previous patch had already peeled off and been replaced with a stronger knee patch. It was time to revisit the whole thing and start fresh!

The yellow cover was a cheap cleaning-aisle-in-the-local-grocery-store product so it's hardly surprising it tore so quickly and easily (hence the patches). I pondered several lengths of fabric in my 1-yard-or-over file drawers, then finally decided to use up some of the never-ending yardage of this not-quite-denim.

The print side is slightly textured--I don't know how that was managed; the plain side less so. Along with being impervious to being used up, it's also 58" wide--the perfect width for the board. So I placed this face up on the basting table, plopped the ironing board upside-down on top of it, pinned the fabric to the yellow cover along the sides and squarish back, trimmed the excess, then removed the board and took the fabrics to the sewing room for a quick stitch together.

When I had stitched as far as I could I put everything back on the board, tightened the elastic string (that had also been a problem--the edge kept pulling up and off the board when I ironed large pieces of fabric), and pinned down the "nose" section using a series of little pleats and 8 little safety pins.

Et voila!

She's so purty! I keep "petting" the surface as I pass by.

I lust after the big board ironing surfaces I see in others' posts, but despite appearances I simply don't have the room for one. The dark blob in the lower right of that picture is my sewing chair. I'd be clobbering myself in the head every time I moved if I placed anything larger in this spot!