Another best friend who every self-respected crafter needs is an owner or manager of your local furniture/upholstery store. Those precious books of tapestry samples got thrown away after the manufacture sends a new one. Don't you think, you can find a very good use for them? The store will give you those books for very little or no cost at all. Anyway, back to the project. Two months ago we got me "just because" present - Limited Edition Zinger Sewing Mashine. This beauty looks like the classical one - black and gold (unfortunately, not the metal, but plastic) and has all the stitches I need. It was sitting on my sewing table (actually the decoupaged old writing table) naked; while I was deciding which cover I want to make for it. 1) I did not want to put too much time into it; 2) I wanted it to go together with the whole table-room design (kind of end of XIX century); 3) Being lazy, I need something easy to put on / easy to take off. And finally I set up my mind. You need tapestry sample book and for this particular project do not remove the paper from the back of fabric; the paper will provide the needed stiffness of the finished piece. I used about 1/2 of it, but it will depend on a size. First you have to measure your machine and make a tamplate (just a rectangle). Short sides are as long as from A to B +4inch, long sides are as long as C to D +2inch.
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