Happy Valentine's Day Sew and Tell

I had a very unhappy accident in the kitchen. *Stay with me.* My ruby red mixer had a glass fall on it from the cabinet above and smashed on top of it. It has multiple paint chips and scratches through the paint. ARGHH! I sighed for a while cleaning up all the glass. Then I thought about my sewing machine and how it didn't have a cover either. I saved, saved and saved some more for it. (I went a year without a sewing machine to do this.) Poor thing was getting dusty and help me if little hands played with it.

After defacing it with Hello Kitty it needed more love. 

I had been putting the zipper carrying cover upside down over the machine. Who is going to lift and put their machine away? I'm much too lazy for that! Oh yeah, the dealer wants you to buy something else. Well... I'd rather spend it on fabric than gadgets!

So I made this cover.

I based it on the Moda tutorial here, but as usual I had to take an easy project and make it ridiculously difficult. I embroidered some redwork hearts in variegated thread Ruby Slippers by Crescent Colors. (Super Bowl time)

I love heart buttons.

I guess I never made anything for the other one I had, because I yelled at it too much. I'll make a more plain cover for my mixer soon.

Don't forget to enter my Valentine's giveaway here in this post! I've used fabric from this project.

I've been posting all week about Valentine's projects. Check them out. I am not sure why I am so into it this year. We usually swear off the cards, candy and going out. I'll snuggle under a quilt on couch watching a movie with hubby. Cheap date, I guess.

Happy Valentine's Day!

So go visit Sew and Tell. There are more talented and crafty people than me out there.