Mixing Bowl Cover | Design a Prototype | Zazu's Stitch Art Tutorials HD

This cute mixing bowl cover features an elastic casing that is also a self-facing, as well as a layer of reinforced plastic from a grain/feed bag, which helps keep dust out even with infrequent use. Unlike my other tutorials, which feature items I have made hundreds if not thousands of times, this video illustrates how I approach the design process, by jumping in and trying construction techniques that I have been mulling for some time. Usually I have made at least two or three prototypes before putting anything out in the booth for sale. If those demonstrate a potential market, I make a few dozen more. At some point during production, subtle improvements in the construction tend to reveal themselves. 0:00 Project Intro - the mixer has a part that sticks down that we will work around. 0:47 I cut the largest circle possible from a fat quarter using the "snowflake method." This video illustrates PROTOTYPING, or how I go about making something for the first time. I usually just try to jump in. MATERIALS LIST: * ONE FAT QUARTER (an 18 x 22-inch piece). Cut the largest circle possible. Then cut 1.75-inch wide casing from it. * 9-INCH CIRCLE cut from a reinforced GRAIN/FEED BAG. * 27-INCH piece of 3/8- or 1/2-inch ELASTIC. 2:40 Cut 1.75-inch FACING or CASING piece from the edge of that circle. 3:28 Cut circle from grain bag, using bowl as a template, and tape the circle to the middle of your big circle. 4:07 Turn and press the INSIDE curve like a 1/4-inch hem. Bias, warp, and weft areas will behave differently, so just finesse this a little. 4:46 Zigzag plastic down with a big stitch, almost a 3, backstitching the ends. Then free-motion quilt the plastic, ending with a little circle. I have taupe thread in the top and green in the bobbin throughout this project. 5:19 I try-on my prototypes constantly while designing. This helps me think of things. 5:38 Stitch casing to the circle with RIGHT SIDES TOGETHER, using about a 1/4-inch seam allowance. Fold over ends where you start and stop, so they butt against each other or overlap a little. 7:17 Early garment sewing has influenced my sewing. Elastic casings are usually made from bias tape. This casing is built like a facing. Press it to the underside of the circle, avoiding touching the plastic with your iron. Pin as desired. 8:47 Stitch down from the underside, using edger foot, backstitching ends. I still have green thread in the bobbin. 9:19 Try on again. Later on this did go through test washing nicely. 9:33 An extra line of topstitching near the edge makes a cuter silouette on an elastic casing, so I add one at about 3/16 of an inch, backstitching the ends. 9:50 Feed elastic using a bodkin or a large safety pin. I fold my elastic down and then in half before clamping my bodkin firmly onto 4 layers. 10:42 Try on again. 10:58 Trim off about 3 inches of elastic, overlap, and zigzag the ends securely together. Who likes to sew velcro and elastic? 1:21 Work elastic all the way in, by stretching the bu