Sew an ironing board cover

1. Place an ironing board onto a large piece of paper, board-side down. Draw around the shape, allowing at least 8cm all round. Cut out to make a template, then use to cut this shape out of fabric.

2. At the narrowest end, fold over a double hem of 1cm to the wrong side, along a width of 5cm. Machine stitch. Fold the whole of the hem over twice to match, then a third time by 2cm all the way round. Pin and stitch leaving the 5cm section open.

3. Attach a safety pin to one end of a 3m length of elastic. Thread it through the gap in the ironing board cover. Bring all the way round until it comes back out of the opening. Manipulate the gathered fabric evenly along the elastic, and secure the ends.

Make a caddy

1. Cut 23cm x 87cm from grey chevron fabric. Trim 20cm x 30cm of black daisy fabric and iron all the raw edges over to the wrong side by 5mm, mitring the corners. Pin this in the middle of the grey fabric. Cut six 8cm squares from yellow daisy fabric and fold each one in half to the wrong side to make a rectangle. Fold each corner of the fold over to the middle of the raw end to make a triangle. Press with a hot iron.

2. Arrange