A couple of posts ago I wrote about restoring the challah cover I had given to my sister . When I wrote the post I was only partially done. I had cut away the rotted silk, found a good replacement, (the reverse of a red jacquard weave upholstery fabric), had stitched the center panel with the lettering to the new and stronger fabric, and covered the join with a braid that I had embroidered. My next task was to stitch the Chinese brocade to the upholstery fabric and to cover that raw edge. One might ask why I didn't just disassemble the whole challah cover. Brocade is incredibly shreddy fabric. If I unpicked the brocade border and tried to reassemble the entire challah cover the process of unpicking would likely leave me with shredded bits of brocade that would have become much smaller during the tedious job of un-sewing. I carefully placed the upholstery fabric into position (in the photo above it is just slightly skewed). I basted everything into position ...
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