Sew Cozy

We have one of those ginormous IKEA shelves in what we affectionately call the playroom. The room is intended to be a formal dining room, but we don't have a real dining table so it naturally became the dumping ground for Kumi's toys. One of my ongoing projects is to organize this shelf so that it doesn't look like a cluttered junkyard.

The biggest eyesore and the bane of my existence was this:

A large flat screen monitor that we never use. Unfortunately our closets and extra storage spaces are completely full and I can't fit the thing to hide it away. And there is that off chance that we might actually use it. So my solution? A monitor cozy!

I absolutely love this fabric. It's from a Japanese textile company and I had just enough to make this cover for the unsightly monitor. It was really easy; all I needed was one long rectangular panel and two triangular sides. I was able to sew it in less than an hour!

Here is the shelf in its entirety. You can see the fake stove top I tried to make for Kumi on the lower right. I wish I had a before shot, because the shelf has come a long way.