Challah Cover Tutorial

Here's a quick and easy project to make your own Challah Cover. The perfect wedding gift, or keep it for yourself to help make all your Shabbat celebrations beautiful and special. The illustrated fabric shown in this tutorial can be purchased in my Spoonflower shop for about $10-11 dollars. Once at the shop, all you need to do is:

1. Choose your fabric. I'd recommend any of the 100% cotton ones. I use either the Basic Cotton Ultra or the Kona Cotton. Both of these fabric widths fit the Shabbat Shalom design with minimum fabric waste.

2. Choose a size and amount. You'll need 1 fat quarter. 

The fabric will be delivered to your home in a couple weeks, then just follow the simple steps below... 

Have fun!

STEP 1

Wash the fabric.

STEP 2

Iron.

STEP 3

Find a piece of plain white cotton fabric or anything you'd like to use as the underside of your challah cover. Pin right sides together and sew along dotted line. Leave a small opening about 5" wide.

STEP 4

Trim excess fabric .25" away from seam.

STEP 5

Trim corners to reduce bulk.

STEP 6

Turn right side out. Use something long and thin (like the eraser side of a pencil) to push out the corners.

STEP 7

To close opening, tuck ends of fabric under .25" and pin. Hand sew closed.

Optional, for an extra special touch, use silver metallic thread to outline illustrations and along the edges of the border. Your challah cover is now complete!  If you'd like to share a picture of your finished project I'd love to see it. On instagram I'm @vickykatzman or you can e-mail me at vicky@vickykatzman.com. I hope you use your handmade creation for many years to come. Shabbat Shalom!