Reusable fabric bowl covers are perfect for anyone with a working kitchen. They are quick and easy to sew together and you can customise them to fit your favourite bowls you use in your kitchen.
If you spend a lot of time making recipes from scratch, having reusable fabric bowl covers can be a great addition to your kitchen. You can use these instead of plastic cling film over your bowls when baking things like loaves of bread.
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Why Are Reusable Fabric Bowl Covers Useful In The Kitchen?
These bowl covers can be super handy for so many reasons:
What Are Suitable Fabrics To Use For Fabric Bowl Covers?
Natural or sustainable fabrics like linen or cotton would be best for this project. If you can afford it, organic would be better as no pesticides or harsh chemicals are used to produce the fabric.
Linen is great because it’s naturally antibacterial. It also ages well and holds up to lots of use, making it a lovely scrummy fabric in your kitchen.
If you have old cotton or linen tablecloths, you could turn them into simple fabric bowl covers, tea towels, or fabric placements for your table.
Remember to pre-wash your fabrics before sewing to help prevent shrinkage when they are washed after use. These will be used often in the kitchen and get dirty with flour or bread dough and oils, etc.
How To Use Reusable Fabric Bowl Covers In Your Kitchen
- These bowl covers are not airtight so they cannot replace plastic wrap in keeping food fresh in the fridge. However, you can use beeswax wraps underneath these covers to help keep your food fresh.
- These covers are perfect for those who enjoy baking bread or making sourdough. If you’re into bread making, you know that you need to cover your bowls multiple times. These covers can help you avoid using too many tea towels or plastic wrap in your kitchen.
- If you’re having guests over for dinner, these covers are a great way to keep your food fresh while you wait to eat or to store it in the fridge for a short time.
- If you enjoy preserving food, like making jam, these covers will make lovely additions when gifting to others on special holidays.
- You could even make covers for your mugs to keep bugs from landing in your beverage while it’s brewing.
Materials & Tools You Will Need
Cotton or linen fabric pieces (two layers of fabric per bowl)
Elastic (over 1cm (5/8”) width is best)
Tape measure
Chalk or tailors pencil
Pins
Safety pin
Fabric shears
Thread
Sewing machine
Iron
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1. Place your bowl rim down on the fabric and trace around it using your chalk or tailors pencil.
2. Using a tape measure, add an extra 5cm (2”) around the circle. Join these marks up to create a bigger circle. Cut out the circle from two layers of fabric. (One is for the lining, so if you want to use a different fabric for this, go for it!)
3. Place the fabric layers right sides together. Pin around the outer edge. Sew around the edges with a 5/8″ (1cm) seam allowance, leaving a 5cm wide gap in the seam.
4. Turn the bowl cover through the gap in the seam so the right sides of the fabric are showing. Iron this nice and flat and wiggle out the seams so the circle is round.
5. Sew another seam around the outer edge 2.5cm (1”). This will create the casing for the elastic.
Cut the elastic 5cm shorter than the bowl circumference. Using a safety pin, thread it through the casing. Pin the elastic ends together and zigzag stitch to hold together.
Push the elastic inside the casing and edgestitch the seam opening closed.
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How to Sew Reusable Fabric Bowl Covers
Reusable fabric bowl covers are perfect for anyone with a working kitchen. They are quick and easy to sew together and you can customise them to fit your favourite bowls you use in your kitchen. If you spend a lot of time making recipes from scratch, having reusable fabric bowl covers can be a great addition to your kitchen. You can use these instead of plastic cling film over your bowls when baking things like loaves of bread.
Materials
- Cotton or linen fabric pieces (two layers of fabric per bowl)
- Elastic (over 1cm (5/8”) width is best)
Tools
- Tape measure
- Chalk or tailors pencil
- Pins
- Safety pin
- Fabric shears
- Thread
- Sewing machine
- Iron
Instructions
- Place your bowl rim down on the fabric and trace around it using your chalk or tailors pencil.
- Using a tape measure, add an extra 5cm (2”) around the circle. Join these marks up to create a bigger circle. Cut out the circle from two layers of fabric. (One is for the lining, so if you want to use a different fabric for this, go for it!)
- Place the fabric layers right sides together. Pin around the outer edge. Sew around the edges with a 5/8" (1cm) seam allowance, leaving a 5cm wide gap in the seam.
- Turn the bowl cover through the gap in the seam so the right sides of the fabric are showing. Iron this nice and flat and wiggle out the seams so the circle is round.
- Sew another seam around the outer edge 2.5cm (1”). This will create the casing for the elastic. Cut the elastic 5cm shorter than the bowl circumference. Using a safety pin, thread it through the casing. Pin the elastic ends together and zigzag stitch to hold together. Push the elastic inside the casing and edgestitch the seam opening closed.
Notes
- Natural or sustainable fabrics like linen or cotton would be best for this project. If you can afford it, organic would be better as no pesticides or harsh chemicals are used to produce the fabric.
- Remember to pre-wash your fabrics before sewing to help prevent shrinkage when they are washed after use. These will be used often in the kitchen and get dirty with flour or bread dough and oils, etc.