I covered my ironing board from end to end with a wool mat, cut to fit. It put a loose weave muslin fabric cover on top. Seems over the last few years I have become wool mat rich. I got one from my secret pal, one for a door prize at a quilt shop, and I won two of them from Facebook drawings and I had bought one as soon as I saw it in the quilt shop some years ago when no one really knew what they were.