How to Sew a Casserole Dish Cover
Casserole dish covers dress up the dishes you are making to take to a get together. They also nice for entertaining guests at home because they add an inviting touch to dishes you are preparing to serve at a buffet style meal. You can simply slip them over dishes while you are waiting for all of your company to arrive. Then when everyone is done eating you can slip these easy to make covers back on the casserole dishes.
Things You'll Need
- 1/2 yard fabric
- Casserole dish
- Tailor's chalk
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Straight pins
- Thread
- Sewing machine
- 1/4 inch elastic
- Bodkin or large safety pin
Instructions
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Spread the fabric face down on a flat surface. You need to be looking at the back side of the fabric. Make sure there are no big wrinkles in it.
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Trace the outer edge of the casserole dish with the tailor's chalk. Set the bowl aside until step 9.
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Measure out 2 inches from outside of the original chalk line, making a bigger copy of the shape. The outer line will be your cutting line.
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Cut around the outer tailor's chalk line with the scissors. The fabric still needs to be face down.
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Turn the edge up and over 1/4 inch, measuring with the ruler, and pin it in place. Put the straight pins every 3 inches for the best results. You should be looking at the back side of the fabric except for the edges where you should see 1/4 inch of the fabric's face.
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Lift the foot on the threaded sewing machine and place the folded edge of the fabric under it. Lower the foot and make sure the folded edge is still in place before beginning to sew. Sew 1/8 inch in. Go all of the way around the cover. Raise the foot and cut the excess thread when you are done.
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Place the cover with the face side down again. Measure 1/2 inch in from the edge with the ruler. Fold the fabric up and over and pin it in place with the straight pins. You should be looking at the back side of the fabric just like in step 5.
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Place the folded fabric edge under the foot of the sewing machine and lower the foot. Sew 1/8 inch from the inner edge. The new seam will be right on top of your first stitch line. Do not go all of the way around. Stop when you get 2 inches from your starting point. This will form your elastic casing.
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Run the elastic around the outer diameter of the bowl without pulling it tight. Use a ruler to take 3 inches away from the elastic piece you just ran around the bowl and use the scissors to cut it.
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Hook the large safety pin or bodkin to the end of the elastic to create a puller you will be able to feel as you work it through the fabric.
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Work the elastic all of the way through the elastic casing by pushing the puller forward until the fabric bunches up behind it and then pulling the fabric onto the elastic. Keep pushing, bunching, and pulling until the elastic is all of the way through. Make sure you do not let the free end of the elastic go into the casing or you will have to start over.
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Overlap the ends of the elastic by at least 3/4 of an inch and sew them on the sewing machine, going back and forth over them several times.
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Close the opening in the elastic casing by sewing the rest of the seam closed.
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Tips & Warnings
If you are making a cover for an extremely large bowl you will need a larger piece of fabric.
