Want a quick refresh of your kitchen decor and feeling a little crafty? Here’s a whole list of gorgeous sewing projects for your kitchen.
A woman cutting my fabric at the hobby store told me she made a new pair of kitchen curtains for every season. What a brilliant idea! With that in mind, I recently found some pretty seasonal fabric and ended up buying more than enough for sewing kitchen curtains. Since I would have so much leftover fabric, I thought it would be fun to make matching accessories. This began my quest for other things I could sew for my kitchen.
I thought pot holders were an obvious choice, but apparently real, working pot holders are supposed to use 100% cotton fabric and thread (or so the tutorials told me). On the other hand, I do have “pretty” potholders no one is allowed to use, ha ha, so I will make up a batch of those. They’ll work nicely to cover up the scorched and stained potholders we actually use in our kitchen.
Sewing for the kitchen can be so fun and therapeutic. But pot holders are just the start! Do you know there are at least 42 other things you can sew for your kitchen? These are great ways to decorate your kitchen with fabric and get in a little crafting time.
Kitchen Sewing Projects
Most of the kitchen sewing projects listed below are appropriate for beginners. I’ll add links to great free tutorials as I find them. Some of these are projects I’ve already made myself.
- kitchen curtains
- pot holders
- oven mitts
- bowl covers
- mixing bowl cover
- basket liners
- small appliance covers
- sink cabinet skirt (or a skirt for any other cabinet)
- decopage wall art
- tie-on chair pads
- kitchen chair covers
- grocery bag holder
- bread bag or roll warmer
- snack bags
- apron
- cute coasters
- hanging dish towel
- grocery tote (reusable shopping bag)
- produce bag
- cloth napkins
- window seat cushion
- rag rug
- fabric kitchen rug
- microwave bowl cozy
- placemat
- kitchen table runner
- casserole cover
- bar stool cusion cover
- tea towels
- hanging towel
- tea cozy
- fabric bowls and baskets
- coffee sleeve
- pot and pan pads (prevents scratching when you have to stack your pans)
- fabric “unpaper” towels
- tortilla cozy
- wall hanging
- lunch bag
- cutlery pockets
- steam mop pads or Swiffer mop refills
- rag bag
- microwave potato bag
- appliance pad (to protect counter from scratchy bottom of bowls, coffee grinder, etc.)
- pet bed
- wine bottle cozy
- french press cozy
- mug cozy
- water bottle bag
- fabric drink holder (also known as a “koozie”)
- microwave popcorn bag
Use this list of ideas the next time you feel like doing some kitchen crafts or find some beautiful kitchen fabric you want to use. Have you done any fun DIY projects for the kitchen? If so, let us know in the comments below!
By the way, reusable paper towels, or “unpaper” towels, used to be called cleaning cloths or rags. But you can still make some! They’re fancier than rags when you sew scraps of toweling on one side and decorative, lint-free fabric on the other. I just think it’s humorous we have a new eco-friendly name for what people have been using for years.
