Simple Quilted Cake Mixer Cover

I have had my trusty kMix cake mixer several years now and for some unknown reason I have never made a cover for it! Since moving into a home we own I have had a strong desire to personalise it and fill it with lovely handmade things. Every evening when Mr B goes to bed I get out my sewing machine and sew sew sew until sometimes the early hours. It's like an addiction! 

I have recently made some bunting for the kitchen and had some left over material. So I decided to make a coordinating mixer cover. 

This is a very basic pattern and suitable for most kMix/KitchenAid style mixers. It is a really simple design and pattern, but it will be the quilting which takes the time. You can omit the quilting by using something like iron on interfacing to give the structure as compared to the quilting, which does give shape and reinforcement to an item. 

Requirements:

1 meter fabric for outer cover

1 meter fabric for lining

1 meter sew-in wadding

5 meters double fold bias tape in coordinating colour

Thread

Other essentials such as scissors, needles, ruler, marker, pins, sewing machine, etc.

This cover can be reversible. So if you want a change in look every now and then, choose a pretty lining fabric.

Method:

From main fabric, lining, and wadding, cut the following:

    2 pieces each -  16"(L) by 11"(W) for the front and back panels

    1 piece each - 36"(L) by 16"(W) for the main body

For the front, back and main body panels, sandwich the wadding between the lining (wrong side up) and the main fabric (right side up). Use a few pins to secure. 

Quilt the panels as desired. (In my cover, the horizontal and vertical lines are about 1 - 1 1/4" apart.)

On a piece of a4 paper draw an arc and cut it out. Use this piece of paper as a guidebook shape your panel and then trim the edges. Trim the main body to 34 3/4" (L) by 15" (W).

To assemble the cover:

Start with the front panel.  Find and mark the center of the curved top.  With lining sides together, match the center of one long edge of the main body panel with the center of the front panel.  Pin together starting from the top, then go down the sides.  Machine sew using a 1/4" seam allowance. Do the same with the back panel.

Apply bias tape to the front and back seams.  Finish off by applying bias tape along the bottom edges.

I had hoped to have finished mine by this evening but alas my quilting has taken me MUCH longer than expected. So I shall update the blog in a couple of days with my finished piece. 

This is my first attempt at trying to describe a sewing pattern and I know as a beginner that photos of each stage and sometimes a downloadable pattern are really useful. So apologise for not so much of that this time round, but I shall include those next time. Happy sewing!