With all the stainless steel appliances, glass and china dishes, and hard countertops, it's nice to have something soft in the kitchen. It's why we like curtains or rugs or even corks stuck into our pot lids—something cushy to take the edge off. These bowls, rounded up from several Etsy sellers, provide a color and comfort, plus a spot to store fruits and vegetables.
Our only beef with these bowls is cleaning them. Not that a bowl used primarily for storage gets all that dirty, but we do rinse or wipe our fruit bowl occasionally. Maybe we can vacuum these?
We love the fuzziness of the felted bowls, but the ones made from coiled, multicolored cotton add a lot of texture to a room. What do you think?
Here are a few of our favorites:
Large Cloth Bowl, $23 from Netamir (You can buy the set of three, at top, for $48.)
Large Folded Felt Bowl, $34 from Meghan Burch
Rustic Felt Bowl, $19 from Juny
Striped Felted Bowl, $35 from Glow Girl Fibers
Deep Fabric Bowl made with Vintage Fabric, $6 from Photogirl95
Colleen Basket Bowl, $32 from The Keepers House
Related: What's in Your Fruit Bowl?
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I knit, so I've already made felted bowls on my own and used them.
My only tip (which I learned from bitter experience) is: check the condition of the fruit pretty dilligently AND thoroughly. Because if you leave your fruit in the felt bowl a little too long, and only eyeball it instead of picking up the fruit and checking underneath, then you end up not noticing that the apple way on the bottom is starting to go soft, and then if you miss that then it gets mushy and seeps out onto the felted fabric, and then by the time you finally catch wise you have this huge sticky rancid hard-cider smelling stain on your bowl and that is not a fun day.