Mouse pad-done!

The fourth project is finished from the Handmade Home project. The project in which I will try to make one each of the 33 projects in the book Handmade Home within a year. So far, so good.

This morning I made the mouse pad which was pretty easy. It's basically a 9 x 9 inch piece of material for the back and two pieces equaling 9 x 9 for the front. I used a piece of a thrifted shower curtain and a piece of a sheet. You are supposed iron on fusible interfacing to each of the wrong sides and then zigzag stitch wrong sides together.

Well-I used what I call Wonder Under and I don't think it's fusible interfacing-but I think it still has the same effect-which would be to make your fabric sturdier. But-I ran into problems sewing this up because my needle kept getting sticky and that caused my machine to freeze up. I was almost done-but the sticky needle kept giving me problems. So I did what anyone would do with their mouse pad-I stuck it in the freezer. I thought this would help with the stickiness. While it was in the freezer, I cleaned off my needle. After I was done cleaning the needle I hurried up and took the mouse pad out of the freezer and finished it.

So besides the problem with my sticky needle (I think it was from using the Wonder Under), this was a very easy project.

I tried it out and my mouse works very nicely on my new pad!

*****Four down 29 to go*****