I thought I would share the quick and easy tutorial I did for the Riley Blake Design Team earlier this spring for my DIY Resuable & Washable Baking Dish Covers. These come in super handy when you are headed to a potluck or summer picnic and you can’t find your lids!!!! (Not that that has ever happened to me, lol!) Just slid one over the top of you baking dish and BOOM! An instantly covered dish, at your service. The best thing about this tutorial is that you can use the same technique to make covers for anything…8×8 inch pans, bowls, etc. I love a tutorial that has many uses!!!
These baking dish covers are seriously the best things ever! No more wasting saran wrap or foil to cover your dishes and I love that they are reusable as well as washable, holla! And using Riley Blake’s Farm Girl cottons makes them fit in just perfectly in your kitchen…have you seen the mason jar colorway?!!
Here is what you will need to make your own
DIY Reusable & Washable Baking Dish Covers:
1 fat quarter of fabric (or more depending on the size of your baking dish!)
1/4 inch elastic roughly the circumference of your baking dish
1 package extra wide double fold bias tape
safety pin
First, lay your baking dish face down on top of your fabric and cut around it in an oval shape leaving about 1 inch extra fabric all around. 
Next, sew your extra wide double fold bias tape around the entirety of the fabric to make a casing for the elastic…go slowly and carefully around the curves! Make sure to leave a 1 inch opening at the beginning/end of the bias tape so that you can feed the elastic through!
For tips on how to sew bias tape, you can check on this great tutorial here!
Now pin the safety pin to one end of the elastic and feed it through the bias tape casing. Once you get it all the way around, pull on the elastic and test it over your baking dish to make sure it is tight enough. Then sew the ends of your elastic together, clip the excess elastic off, and tuck the elastic inside the bias tape. Sew the remaining bias tape to the fabric and you are done!
Your baking dishes have never looked cuter!!!
Happy sewing and potluck-ing this summer and thanks for stopping by to read!
Love,
Maggie
Thanks for the idea, will make some for sure. Great idea!
Regards from South Africa
very cute. would it work to line the back of the fabric with some sort of vinyl project to keep the cover clean if something spills? someone made me a different style cover and it got stained, and therefore doesn’t look great anymore.
You surely could!!!
thanks and have a blessed day
lovely idea. also makes a great gift or hostess thank you. I modified mine by using 2 layers of fabric plus adding a layer of silver ironing board fabric to help with dribbles or insulation. Also sewed a 1″ by 3″ handle type strip to top middle to slide a serving spoon through.
Did you put the ironing board fabric between the fabric layers? Where do you find the ironing board fabric? I like vet this idea!
I didn’t use ironing board fabric for this project! I would assume you could find it a Joann’s though!
I like the idea of a plastic or vinyl backing but would want food safe backing. I suppose you could use larger zip lock freezer bags. Anyone know of true food safe vinyl fabric?
There is ripstop fabric that is food safe & waterproof. I use it to make reusable sandwich/snack bags for the grandkids.
How about recycling plastic from different
food products. Example: cereal, any kind of baking mixes, etc.
What a great idea, I hate that plastic covers I can never find the right one. Thank you for your idea.
The ironing board fabric is sold in JoAnne’s and on Amazon-it is called insul-bright.
I used your idea and made mine with vinyl tablecloths, cut to size and double layers with the vinyl on both inside and outside. Seem to help insulate and are washable . I do make sure i put them in lingerie bag to wash to keep from getting caught up in other items .
A friend used vinyl shower curtains, and they work well but do not wash well.
Just thought i’d mention that.
Really enjoyed this tutorial and the whole idea of fabric covers, which would be much easier to reuse than the cheap plastic ones from the stores.