Make a new one & throw the old one out.

I don't buy the regular ironing board covers. I use cotton batting as my padding and muslin for my cover. If you have a regular ironing board just pin under it, if you have a big board my husband made me I justlayer on and staple under side. Works wonderful.

My ironing board cover has a cover (LOL). I have a quick pattern for making a cotton cover which I put on over the original one. When it wears out or gets really ugly looking, I just toss it and make a new one.

The same with mine I use it untell I can't stand it some times I put new over old and when it gets too much strip it and start fresh

Well, if we're comparing the age of the ironing board, not the cover, I want to play. The one in my studio is one of those antique all wooden ones. :lol:

I just buy a new one.

I USUALLY THROW THEM AWAY UNLESS THEY ARE THE SILVER TEFLON TYPE AND THEN I WILL CUT AWAY THE GOOD PART TO PUT ON THE BOARD MY HUSBAND MADE ME (SMALL IRONING BOARD) FOR WHEN I AM WORKING ON APPLIQUE AND DON'T REALLY NEED THE BIG IRONING BOARD. LATELY SINCE I HAVE TWO OVER THE DOOR IRONING BOARDS AND FOUND THAT THE COVERS WERE HARD TO FIND I HAVE MADE MY OWN COVERS. SOME REAL CUTE ONE'S ARE MADE WITH THE SEWERS FABRIC THAT HAS PRINTS OF CUTTING MATS TOOLS ETC....

I've washed mine several times.

I make my own covers from decorator fabric on sale (cheap) @ JoAnn's. I just add a new one over the top of the old. They are EASY to make and I can change the LOOK and COLORS in my sewing room that way!

would love to have one of those again. They are great.

I recently washed mine, but it fell apart. I bought a new one, but I cut out a section of the old one to put on the new one when I'm using starch or anything else that might gum up the new one.

If it is not burned, I wash. otherwise buy a new one.

I started making my own ironing board covers years ago. They are much sturdier than commercial ones. I always keep a spare; then put on the spare while I bleach the dirty one.

Ditto to this one.

wash mine just did aqgain the other day

Don't any of you use the fiberglass covers? I have had mime for years. I only bought a new one because my daughter used my new ginghers to cut something out and they were so sharp that she cut thru the cover without realizing it. If you let your fabric dry after starching your covers won't get so ughly.

Wash it and then cut it up to use to make potholders to protect hands from heat or just pretty hot pads. If it is thin in spots, use two or three thicknesses.

Mine came with two fabric tops. I've had this one for 11 years and haven't put the new one on yet. But it's just about time, so maybe I'll try washing it first. It's a large ironing board, and I'm not sure where to get a new cover for it.

I'm laughing at myself because I've never done enough ironing to change them or wear them out. Usually we've broken the board (until this last one I could only afford the cheapest, wobbliest ones.)

For my starched piecing, I took an old pillowcase, cut out the seams and lay it over the board to work on.

But if I had to change, I have some heavy home dec cotton fabric I'd use to recover.

I just put a new cover on mine. I think it has 10 or 12 now!

I wash mine(also the one with markings and measurements) and make the cover for the portable one, You can get the reflective fabric from many on-line sources,

There are some tutorials for covers out there on the web - one is at http:www.modabakeshop.com.

Back in 2008 I bought the miracle ironing board cover at the Vermont Quilt Expo and I just took it off today so I could wash it. I must say it looks pretty darn good considering the hundreds of hours of use and even getting fusible stuck to it.

If it is just stiff from starch I think I would just wash it. My Ironing Board Covers are scortched so I just buy a new one every once in awhile and throw the old one away.

I had a nice one but it had gotten pretty stiff with starch and was in need of a good washing. I never used it again! I washed it in warm water let it line dry as I thought the dryer would shrink it. Well, even after line drying it was too small to use again. I wish they made nice ironing board covers today. The fabric is so thin and cheap it is worn out in about a year. I had my other one for YEARS. Oh well, guess that is progress. :)

I made one of those little ironing boards at a retreat. I love it for quick pressing work! Sits right beside me when I sew.

Trash.

Me too. After time, the cover gets flatter so putting the new one over it, gives me a little more padding.

Good, thought I was the only one. I got it at an antique auction and used it upstairs with one of those table top boards on top of it. I just can't get rid of it. It has a 16" board as its top, do you know how hard it is to find a 16" board? I'm thinking of hanging it, folded up, on a wall as decoration (I have many antiques as decorations)

I saw in this thread, something that's verifying my suspicions. My husband made me a board, about 3 ft wide and 4-5 ft long, that I padded with some old cushy type washable wooly type fabric, and then covered with that aluminun colored ironing board fabric that I got at Joann's. 2 months ago. Growing up, I'm 52, we just used ironing board covers made with this kind of stuff, no fabric cover over it, but this one seems to be of a lesser quality, it's already getting wear holes in it. Just today we went out and bought staples for the staple gun to attach a muslin cover over the cover. I'm thinking that stuff I got at Joann's is not nearly as durable as what I used when I was a kid. Am I right?

I make my own ironing board covers and yes, I do wash them regularly.

I make a fitted, quilted cover customed sized to the ironing board. I even have one in a draw string bag I pack when travelling. Motel / hotel ironing bards are notorious for no padding and ill fitting covers.

definately wash

Yes, the silver stuff sold at JoAnn's is thinner than the stuff the silver covers are made out of. You can still buy the good silver covers ready made, though. I think JoAnn's sells that stuff for potholders, not ironing boards.

The wooden boards also make great plant stands in front of windows, long tables behind sofas, and, of course, quilt display racks. ;-)

I've laundered mine several times.

My only 'big' complaint is that the cover is raveling around the stitching where it stretches around the ironing board, it is an expensive cover that I bought at a quilt show.

Now I would like to convert it to a 'big board' with a firmer surface, just using muslin for the cover.

warm quilt hugs, sue inCA

I make my own. I currently have a purple one, matches a purple quilt I have thrown over a chair in my sewing room. I can't see buying one that I don't like when I have all this wonderful fabric I can use.

My board is solid wood with metal legs (3).

I throw them away. Too much trouble to wash them. Just take the old one and cut out a pattern, put some strings through the facings and you have a brand new ironing board cover. Better yet, put a protective brown paper over your good one, then a muslin sheet. When the muslin sheet gets full of starch, rip it off and wash it. Might also have to change the paper. I used to do this many years ago when my girls were toddlers. In those day they wore, stiffly starched ruffly dresses.

I throw them away. Too much trouble to wash them. Just take the old one and cut out a pattern, put some strings through the facings and you have a brand new ironing board cover. Better yet, put a protective brown paper over your good one, then a muslin sheet. When the muslin sheet gets full of starch, rip it off and wash it. Might also have to change the paper. I used to do this many years ago when my girls were toddlers. In those day they wore, stiffly starched ruffly dresses.

I'll have to remember that because when I replaced my, 30 something one, I was very unhappy with the choice of the newer ones too. I wish I'd thought of saving my old one to use as lining for pot holders. I was afraid the EPA would have arrested me for spreading asbestos laced pot holders...LOL

Andie

I just saw on tip's web page how to make a ironing board cover

Wash 'em 'til they fall to bits, then get another. Am seriously thinking of making my own...can't find any new ones that look any good.