Fat Quarter Project; Reusable Bowl Covers
This quick & easy tutorial will help you to create some cute bowl covers to use when storing food in the fridge (or to keep those flies out if dining al fresco!) I like to make overnight oats, so these are perfect to use rather than cling film or foil.
You will need:
- Fabric fat quarters – iron to get any creases/folds out.
- Sewing machine with a universal needle
- Thread
- Fabric scissors
- Bowls to draw round (whichever bowls you want to cover)
- Narrow elastic (Around ¼”)
- Tape measure of measuring gauge
- Safety pin
- Chalk/Fabric marker
- Pins/clips
- Pinking Shears or overlocker
Remember to back stitch at the start and end each time you sew – this is essential to secure your stitches.
- Turn your bowl upside down and place it on your fabric.
- Using a measuring tape/gauge and fabric marker, make marks 2” / 5cm away from the bowl, all the way around the circumference. Join these together to make a circle.
- Cut your circle out using pinking shears. Alternatively, cut out with normal scissors then finish the outside edge with an overlocker or zig-zag/overcast stitch.
- Fold the finished edge over (wrong sides together) by ½” all the way round and pin/clip in place. You’ll probably get some little folds/tucks here, but that’s absolutely fine!
- Sew close to the finished edge, but leave a 2” gap open.
- Cut a piece of elastic, approximately 4” / 10cm smaller than the circumference of the bowl. Using a safety pin, insert the elastic into the casing around the outside of the circle.
- Overlap the ends of the elastic by ½” then sew them together to secure. I found it easier to do this by hand.
- Stitch the gap closed then use your fingers to spread out the fabric evenly around the elastic.
And there you go – you’ve finished your bowl cover. Now you can whip up as many as you need!
If you get stuck on any aspects of the tutorial, please feel free to send me a message and I’ll help.
Share your finished makes on instagram, using the hashtag #SewHayleyJaneFQ and tag me @sewn_on_the_tyne
Tamlyn xx