Handy Reusable Fabric Bowl Cover

Create personalized fabric bowl covers and tote your side dishes to potlucks and barbecues in style! Make your own customized bowl cover with this easy and quick reusable bowl covers tutorial!

DIY Bowl Covers

Reusable bowl covers that are made with fabric are less wasteful than plastic wrap to cover leftovers. Make your own customizable fabric bowl covers with my bowl cover pattern! This way the bugs outside won’t be flocking to your food but the people will!

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I love soup in any season, be it cold or hot, chicken, tomato, vegetables, beef etc. But fall and winter feel so much more special with a bowl of my favorite soup, enjoyed in front of the fireplace. We enjoy a bowl of soup almost every day, sometimes twice a day; we just can’t imagine a meal without a bowl of soup! And these lovely fabric bowl covers really come in handy when we eat outside, in the garden, keeping the bugs away from our food while we gather around the table.

Making your own customized fabric covers is so easy and quick with this tutorial! Use my reusable bowl covers tutorial to make covers for all your bowls to transport goodies to a potluck, or to keep bugs away at picnics. This is a great beginner project! The best thing about these fabric bowl covers is that you won’t need an actual bowl cover pattern, you get to make it yourself. This way your DIY bowl covers will fit your bowls perfectly!

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I had so much fun making these, I didn’t stop at just one and I played around with fabric and the elastic, creating slightly different designs. It was such a quick and easy project!

Please note, these reusable bowl covers are not water resistant and if you want a seriously tight seal you will need to use foil or plastic wrap. But it’s washable and you can make it in all kinds of colors and patterns and you can use different methods to sew the elastic so you’ll get slightly different designs as I did.

If you want your food to stay warm longer you could use chips bags instead of the second cotton fabric piece but you’ll need to leave a larger opening and turn the fabrics out carefully as the chip bag might break. Or you can use insulation in between the fabrics.

Reusable Bowl Covers

Materials:

• 2 pieces of 100% Cotton fabric, large enough for your bowl measurement (coordinating or contrast fabric)
• Thin Elastic (the amount depends on the size of your bowl)
• Sewing machine (optional; you can easily sew these by hand too)
• Matching or contrast thread
• Scissors
• Safety pins

Directions:

• Choose the bowl you plan to make the cover for
• Flip it up side down and place it on your fabric

• Cut two pieces of preshrunk cotton fabric, 3″ wider than your bowl

• Place the fabric pieces right sides together

• Sew around with 1/2″ seam allowance

• Leave a 2″ opening so you can turn the fabrics out

• Clip around the circle formed with the 2 fabric pieces. This will make it easier to press the fabrics once turned right side out.

• Pull the two pieces right side out

• Finger press the 2 pieces of fabric around the edge then iron press on both sides

• From the edge of the pressed seam, sew with 1/2″ seam all the way around to create a case for your elastic(I’m sorry, I forgot to take photos of this step)
• Measure towards the top of your bowl and subtract two inches; that is how much elastic you will need. You want it tight but not too tight

• Stick a safety pin through the end of the elastic

• Thread your elastic through the casing, all around the circle

• Evenly distribute the casing so that you have even ruffling
• Stitch the ends of elastic together
• Close the opening in your circle by top-stitching. Avoid sewing through the elastic

• Place your covers on top of your bowls and you are ready for your gathering!

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