Post #756964 by danlovestikis on Fri, Jan 8, 2016 9:00 AM

kingstiedye we love your visits, you may come by anytime.

hang10tiki we should be on that plane with you. You take the best island photos ever and I'm looking forward to you sharing most of them. Enjoy! We will be there with you in spirit.

Sew Tiki Happy Birthday I bet this trip is a present from hang10tiki. We know you'll have an outstanding birthday with your guy.

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Wish List #6 progress report. I'm almost done with two more mugs but not quite. So instead here's a project I finished on my Holiday Break. Men I think you could whip out the sewing machine and make one too. I know MadDogMike has sewn curtains for his trailer so you can do it too.

Here are my step by steps for making a stereo dust cover and a table cloth.

When we got off the plan in Maui last February we saw a wholesale cloth store. We stopped so I could look for fabric.

There were many to choose from but the fabric was all thin and not beautiful.

On the way to visit Maui Rob and Beachbumz in Kehei I saw a quilt shop and we went inside. I found the best fabric ever made.

It was perfect.

Very beautiful. I had my measurements and They cut the pieces for me. The lady gave me a hint I'll share later.

We got home I lay the fabric out to make sure the pieces would be large enough. Right on!

Here's the hint. She said that bark cloth ravels out when washed and that I needed to run a seam along all the cut edges before washing. So I did just that.

Dan washed it on hot to shrink it as much as possible.

While he did this I filled a whole bunch of bobbins so I'd be ready to go.

Out of the drier I found that it had raveled right up to my thread. She gave us a very good hint.

I trimmed off the threads and started to sew.

I made Dan's dust cover first. I just rolled the edges and sewed them flat.

I did two sides and then two ends. Looks like I forgot to take it off of zigzag, oh well.

Here it is over the equipment.

Dan collects tikis, music and old components to play the music on.

Now it was time to make the table cloth and to take it off of zigzag stitching. The cloth wasn't wide enough to do it in one piece so I took two lengths of fabric and matched the pattern on the front and folded over one time and ran a seam top to bottom.

Next I opened it up and you can see how I matched it.

Then looking at the top I pulled the fabric flat and ran a seam from top to bottom. Doing this made the seam lay flat when on the table.

No I did all four edges by rolling and running a seam close to the edge and

a second seam to make it lay flat. If this isn't done then when washed it could pucker and require ironing. Horrors who wants to iron.

When rolling there comes a time when you get to the seam that is too thick to sew over. Just lift the foot pull out the fabric and

move the fabric up and start again below the thick part.

After you finish that seam just go back with thread and needle and sew it shut.

The last bit is done.

Finished. I just hung it over the railing of the stairway to have a last look for now.

I folded the table cloth and look forward to putting it on the table when the Wish List is finished.

OK guys when you make something post it here for us to see. Cheers, Wendy