Rid-Jid ironing boards

------------------------------------- does anyone know where you can buy Rid-Jid ironing board covers now? i've had mine for 48 years and cannot find covers for it anywhere.

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------------------------------------- does anyone know where you can buy Rid-Jid ironing board covers now? i've had mine for 48 years and cannot find covers for it anywhere.

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Check eBay, if none are there now, keep checking back as they do turn up now and then.

Candide

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I didn't even bother trying to find a cover for my Mary Proctor ironing board, but went straight to making covers out of unbleached cotton duck. An ironing-board cover is just a piece of fabric with a casing around the outside, after all.

For the current cover -- the second or third I've made in the last forty-five years -- I cut the duck just big enough to cover the top and sides, then sewed a straight strip of muslin all around and made the casing in the muslin. Well, I made the casing, then sewed the muslin on. The thinner fabric draws up easier, and there isn't as much of it in the corners, so I could allow a generous tuck-under.

Another advantage of rolling your own: my home-made padding comes down over the sides of the board, so that the edges and corners can do some of the jobs that would otherwise require a ham or a seam roll -- a big help with ironing shirts as well as with sewing.

Joy Beeson

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Joy Beeson

Mine came with extra covers, but just nabbed a MIB off fleaBay.

Still, yes, have run up covers for my Proctor board from a huge bolt of Nomex one got on the cheap.

Just use vintage wool blankets for the padding, though the original Proctor padding is holding up well.

Candide

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Candide

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