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Make a mark one inch in from the folded corner, and make another mark two inches down along the folded edge. Fold the square in half, with the batting side out. It will look like there’s a big X on each square. Next, sew two diagonal lines through each square, corner to corner. Use cotton batting and cotton thread.įor the first step, layer each fabric square on top of a batting square.

PLEASE make sure that whatever fabric and batting, and thread you use is microwave safe! Polyester is not a good choice for this project, nor any fabric with metallic embellishments. You can also use a couple of fat quarters for this project if you don’t have scraps that are big enough.įor this project, you will need two 10″ x 10″ squares of fabric, two 10″ x 10″ squares of cotton batting or boiled wool scraps, and a marking pen. This soup bowl cozy is so easy and quick to make, and saves your fabric scraps from the landfill.

You know how when you microwave a bowl of food, by the time the food is barely warmed up, the bowl is as hot as molten lava bursting forth from an apocalyptic volcano? And you try to carry it to your table using your sweater sleeves as potholders? Well, this adorable soup bowl cozy is the solution you have been searching for. You can use those scraps to sew all sorts of cool projects, like this soup bowl cozy! Don’t be ashamed- in fact, you should be proud.

If you are a fabric hoarder like me, you might also hoard your fabric scraps. Isn’t that amazing? This will be my first project in a series of tutorials all about how to do exactly that. As sewists, we have the power to significantly cut down on textile waste when we make our own garments, through reusing fabric scraps to make new projects, sustainable fabric choices, refashioning, and more. Sustainability is always at the front of my mind when I am sewing. I am very excited to debut my new blog post series, all about ways to practice sustainability in sewing.