Why is it that kitchen accessories need to be replaced so often? I guess I shouldn’t complain because I love to sew cute things for my kitchen. Out with the old aprons, potholders, and dishtowels and in with pretty new ones!
Here are my 25 favorite (and free!) patterns and tutorials to freshen up your kitchen. Besides aprons, hot pads, and dishtowels, you’ll find cloth napkins, a mixer cover, bowl cozies, and more!
Make a Bowl Cozy
Everyone needs a soup bowl cozy to keep hot bowls from the microwave from burning their fingers! My kids eat ramen noodles daily and always use a cozy soup bowl, so I like having lots on hand.
Cotton Flannel Tea Towel Tutorial
Flannel is so soft and absorbent, two important characteristics for a towel! Learn how to make fast and easy tea towels in this easy tutorial from Orange Bettie. You can make two generously sized towels with a yard of fabric.
Christmas Tree Potholder and Oven Mitt
Put some cute Christmas in your kitchen with my festive holiday potholder pattern. It’s fat-quarter-friendly! These easy-to-sew hot pads make great gifts for teachers, neighbors, friends, and relatives.
Sweet Modern Apron
Make a scrappy patchwork pocket apron to keep busy in the kitchen!
Fabric Bowl Covers
Ditch your plastic wrap and opt for fabric bowl covers instead. Fabric bowl covers are a cute way to store leftovers in your fridge or to bring a dish to picnics. Just stretch the cover over and reuse it again and again!
Patchwork Placemats
Sew beautiful patchwork placemats for your fall table! This free sewing pattern includes instructions for making half-square triangles, flying geese, and chisel shapes. When you quilt them together, they will make perfect placemats for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any special occasion.
Tie-Top Dish Towel
Sew a classic tie on a dish towel. You can make quite a few from one bath towel and some cotton fabric. This never goes out of style!
Quilted Oven Mitt Pattern
When sewing kitchen accessories, you’ll never go wrong with a basic quilted oven mitt pattern. This pattern is easy to customize for any season of the year or for holidays.
Free Apron Pattern
Perfect for beginners, the One Yard Magic Apron tutorial comes with a pattern template. It has drawstring ties and a pocket.
Quilted Heart Potholder
Put some love in your kitchen with my heart potholder pattern. It’s fat-quarter-friendly. These easy-to-sew hot pads make great gifts for teachers, neighbors, friends, and your Valentine!
DIY Cloth Napkins
Fabric napkins elevate your dining table, even for everyday use. See how to make pretty cloth napkins in two different ways!
Mini Oven Mitts
This easy-to-make oven mitt pattern uses cotton fabric and insulated batting to make oven mitts that are as beautiful as they are functional.
Patchwork Potholders
Use a free sewing pattern to sew a cute new potholder! This clever design has pockets so your fingers will never get burned. Learn how to sew patchwork potholders.
Log Cabin Hexi Potholder
These hexagon potholders are the perfect way to use up fabric and batting scraps and practice quilting. When done, you’ll have a beautiful and useful item. See the free Log Cabin Hexi Potholder sewing pattern.
Folded Fabric Coasters
Sew up some cutefolded fabric coastersto protect your furniture and use up fabric scraps. This project is perfectly suited to beginners.
Folded Fabric Potholders to Match Your Coasters
Who says you can’t have a beautifully coordinated kitchen (or give thoughtfully coordinated gifts)? The folded fabric potholder is just as easy to make as the coaster.
Kitchenaid Mixer Cover
Learn how to sew a cute cover for your mixer. Here’s a free mixer cover pattern, and it makes a great sewing machine cover, too!
The handmade things to sew for your kitchen keep coming!
Jelly Roll Apron Pattern
Sew an easy and fun apron using jelly roll strips! This free Mile-a-Minute Apron Pattern is fast to sew and makes a great gift (if you can bear to part with it).
Casserole Carrier Pattern
This insulated pouch to carry a baking dish is especially easy. Will you sew a casserole carrier to take to your next picnic or to give as a hostess gift?
Handmade Apron from Coordinating Fabrics
Your apron doesn’t have to be plain. This BBQ Apron uses 3 half yards of fabric for a fun patchwork look. There’s a loop at the waist to hang the tongs.
Wipeable Table Cloth
Laminated fabric makes a beautiful and durable tablecloth that is easy to wipe clean. This tablecloth tutorial makes it fast and easy.
Simple 30-Minute Hot Pad
Use squares of fabric and insulated batting to make a super easy 30-Minute Hot Pad. This tutorial is perfect for beginners because it’s so straightforward and simple.
Fat Quarter Friendly Tea Towels
Tea towels made with fat quarters can be embellished with hand or machine stitching.
Stay Put Dish Towels
These DIY embellished towels were sewn from inexpensive bar towels, plus 1/4 yard of fabric each. You’ll love how cute and easy they are to sew.
Casserole Dish Sized Trivet or Potholder
This casserole hot pad is extra large and is great for use as a trivet on your table. This easy tutorial will show you how to make a quilted hot pad with fun prints. These make an awesome gift, and they come together so quickly.
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