Matt's Ironing Board Adventure

hi I'm Matt Jordan from Jordan Fabrics here in gr Pass Oregon I've been getting some requests online to uh or people want to see how I build the ironing boards it's no it's not complicated I'm going to head over to Home Depot right now and start with a piece of plywood let's [Music] go I'm going to get a piece of 4x8 plywood and I'll just check price when I get there and stability of the wood um and then I'm going to cut have them cut those into three pieces 30 in by 48 in and I've got a little electric staple gun and I have used a manual staple gun uh before on this project but I got an electric one and it it's a lot easier so we'll have the plywood I'm going to use a surprise fancy fabric for the top and batting that you just a 80 20 batting that you quilt with for the uh to give it a little hand a little you and you'll see what I mean when I do that so my son was kind enough to drive me here today so off we go so we're going to turn in the lot here this is a big company Fire Mountain Gems big company in Grands Pass they run two shifts during the day and they they have all kinds of beads and gems and things that they ship all over the world here's Home [Music] Depot don't want to you don't want to get it too heavy too thick I like this half in I'm going to get this half in today 4x8 Birch stable it's not all warped it'll last a long time and I'm going to cut three boards out of this so I'm going to take it over and have the have the gentleman here cut [Music] it shiny okay I picked up the plywood I need and I have it sitting here I have three different pieces it's cut 30 in by 48 in and it this happens to be birch plywood it doesn't matter what type of plywood it is as long as it's relatively smooth on both sides and I I liked this particular piece of plywood because it was smooth on both sides it was a/ in thick which I like and it's extremely light it really is it will be easy for me to move this is one of the ironing boards that I'm going to be replacing uh it's about 2 years old it's a piece of canvas fabric that I got at a fabric store but you can see it's it's wearing out here it's it's wearing down to the batting that's that's underneath it there it's old it's ugly and I'm going to replace it and I'm going to try something new this time this is the cloth I'm going to use on the ironing board a few months ago I got in these cotton from that are designed by Kay facet and they are a heavier cloth it's also 54 in wide as opposed to about 44 in wide this one is a nice soft look of of all these here I think this is the best one for an ironing board but it'll really dress that ironing board up and uh maybe make it more fun to go over there and do some ironing so let's head back over the shop and put this together the first thing I'm going to do to make this ironing board is cut the batting and it's necessary to have this batting because you need something between the wood and the fabric to give it some body and as you pull the fabric tight it keeps it nice and flat and tight on there if you just had wood and fabric after a while when you iron you you get many wrinkles and things that wouldn't be good for ironing so I've got my piece of batting I'm going to use two layers so I just rolled the roll out two layers and I want about 6 in around each side and that's exactly what I've got here this is the cloth that we picked out earlier and so I'm going to cut it to size also right now move that over there a little bit so I want approximately 6 in all the way around this isn't quite 6 in on both sides but it's close enough to staple we have plenty of plenty of room there to staple so that's fine and what I'm going to do is just come over here and approximately 6 in or so okay I'm going to take the piece of fabric and put it up on the table now I'm going to add our batting on top of that which will be a little bigger than the fabric that will not be a problem because we're going to trim we're going to trim the batting down I'm I'm going to cut the batting about to the size of about to the edge here I should say I'm just kind of looking as I go I'm looking am I doing okay yeah I'm doing okay you can see I'm going to keep going here a little bit I'm putting the piece of wood on now and basically centering it on here to to so that I have about the same amount of cloth here as I have here the same cloth on this side as I have on this side and that's about right this is going to be great my next step is going to be right angle cutting I'm going to cut from the edge here to the corner of the board and here I'm I'm lining it up on the tip on both both times that I do it and this will make my folding and stapling much easier and I'm going to do that on all four sides going to put some Staples in the gun I use uh this is an arrow stapler electric staple gun t50 is the size staples and these are 38 of an inch I'm going to begin stapling now and I'm just going to pull the cloth up tight against the wood tuck it under a little bit place the staple gun on that fold right right towards the edge pop it down and I've got my first Staple in there and I'm going to continue all the way along this Edge be the first thing I do I've got my first set of Staples in it's tied down nice and tight and now I'm going to add some reinforcing little Staples here which will help in the future as this gets used just just keep it tight down on the board think I'll stick another one here I've got this side done now I'm I'm pleased with the way it's coming out I like this cloth it's not as quite as heavy as a heavy canvas that I've bought before but it's much easier to work with and it'll be fine for what we're using it for um now I've turned it and I'm going to pull tight I'm going to pull tight just against that end because I want all the wrinkles and stuff out of the cloth and out of the batting and now I'm just going to pull the Fab itself be sure it's nice and tight on here so that it'll staple up very nicely looking good both of my ends are done I'm going to start the long sides now I'll start over here on this side and I start approximately in the middle turn it under pull it tight get the stapler staple that down I'm going to keep going down the line here I'm down to the first corner here and I'm going to tuck the fabric underneath and tuck it underneath on top first I'm going to staple this down here I'll tuck this and staple it and I'll trim off any excess here at the end I really got to press down here I'm going through quite a few layers here so this is where the electric gun really helps good I'm going to continue now on the second half stapling just as I have done on this first half after that I will go over to this side and I will pull the batting just a little bit and the cloth I'll hold the board and pull it quite tight just to be sure there's no wrinkles or anything left in there that shouldn't be there and that will finish this part of the process of doing the board okay I've got it all stapled down now flip it over and see what we have here beautiful ironing board this ironing board looks great and it irons really smooth excellent just excellent piece thanks for watching the video today if you have any questions let me know and I'll see you next [Music] time

Channel: Jordan Fabrics

Views: 338,438

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Id: 8uJK2nRT22w

Length: 10min 53sec (653 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 07 2017