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Cutlery Cozy (In-the-Hoop)

Place setting featuring Cutlery Cozy (In-the-Hoop) design

Create cozy accents for your next picnic or dinner party with this lovely in-the-hoop silverware holder. With beautifully stitched scroll detailing and the ability to use a wide variety of fabrics (like cotton, linen, and more), this chic motif is a fast and fabulous way to add a bit of character to your meal time decor.

Supplies & Materials:

Project Needs & Notes:


  • 1/4 yard of linen, cotton, or other fabric
  • Tearaway stabilizer
  • Medium weight cutaway stabilizer
  • Temporary Spray Adhesive (Gunold's KK100)
  • Scissors

Designs featured in this tutorial include:


Elegant Swirls Silverware Holder (In-the-Hoop)

Gather Materials:

This in-the-hoop design has multiple files. One is a full embroidery file. The others are dieline files marked with the letters DL. Dielines are used to cut the fabric to the right shape and size. Open the dieline files with embroidery software.

Printed paper pattern with line drawing and sewing instructions placed on top of a folded piece of beige linen fabric, all on a gray surface.

Spray the backside of the paper dieline for the front piece with temporary adhesive. Then smooth it onto the right side of the fabric.

Gray fabric square with a white paper template pinned or fused on top, featuring a cutlery cozy pattern with pocket and fold lines.

Cut out the shape.

Pair of gray-handled scissors next to a small square piece of beige woven fabric with a curved cutout, both placed on a gray textured surface.

Repeat to cut out the lining piece, which is also cut from the front dieline.

Two cut rectangles of beige textured fabric with curved notches at one edge lie on a gray surface. Below them is a pair of gray-handled scissors with the blades open.

For the back piece, take a piece of cut away stabilizer, spray it with temporary spray adhesive, and smooth it onto the wrong side of a piece of fabric. Then spray the opposite side of the stabilizer and smooth it onto the wrong side of another piece of fabric. This will make a sandwich of fabric on top, stabilizer in the middle, and fabric on the bottom.

Hand holding a folded corner of beige fabric with a white interfacing square sewn inside, on a dark gray surface background.

Spray the backside of the back paper dieline, and smooth it onto the sandwich of fabric and stabilizer. Then cut out the back piece.

Gray-handled scissors and a beige textured fabric square are placed on a dark gray surface. No embroidery or lettering visible.

Start Embroidering:

Hoop a piece of tear-away stabilizer firmly. Make sure it is nice and tight with no wrinkles. Madeira E-Zee 1.5 oz or Floriani Tearaway medium are good options. Those stabilizers are more fibrous, less paper like, and will tear more cleanly.

Rectangular embroidery hoop holds white fabric with a faint marbled pattern, secured on a gray surface with a white fabric crease visible underneath.

Attach the hoop onto the machine and load the full embroidery file (not the dieline files). Embroider the design. The first thing to embroider will be the "front piece dieline." This will mark the area on the stabilizer where the front fabric piece is to be placed.

Close-up of an embroidery machine stitching a curved outline on a piece of fabric hooped in place, with translucent stabilizer visible underneath.

Remove the hoop from the machine, but do not unhoop the stabilizer. Spray the back of the front piece with temporary adhesive, and smooth it into place inside of the sewn dieline.

Close-up of a hand lifting beige fabric placed inside an embroidery hoop with stabilizer underneath, preparing for machine stitching on a gray surface.

Then attach the hoop back onto the machine and sew the "front piece tackdown" which will hold that fabric piece in place.

Close-up of an embroidery machine stitching a beige fabric piece held in an embroidery hoop, with the sewing foot engaged and metal machine parts visible.

Continue to embroider the inner details of the design.

Close-up of white embroidery stitching a decorative corner design onto a square piece of beige fabric in an embroidery machine hoop.

Remove the hoop from the machine without unhooping the stabilizer and flip it so the back side of the embroidery is facing up. Spray the backside of the lining piece with temporary adhesive, and smooth it into place on the backside of the embroidery.

Hand removing backing from beige fabric piece with intricate embroidery inside an embroidery hoop on a dark gray surface.

Return the hoop back to the machine and embroider the lining tackdown.

Close-up of a sewing machine stitching white ornate floral embroidery on beige fabric held in an embroidery hoop, with needle and presser foot visible.

As the rest of the embroidery will now be seen from both sides, wind a bobbin with the same thread that is being used in the top needle. Place the new bobbin into the machine.

Close-up of dark gray fabric with a large brown spool of thread and a small matching bobbin on top, both positioned near the center right on the fabric surface.

Then place the hoop back onto the machine and embroider the "front finishing edge" step. This will only sew along the top edge of the design.

Close-up of a sewing machine stitching white intricate floral embroidery on beige fabric shaped with a rounded top and open side, on a white background.

Next embroider the "back piece dieline" which will show where the back piece will be place on the back of the hoop.

Embroidery machine stitching a beige fabric cutlery cozy with white ornamental scrollwork design, held in a white hoop on a blurred gray background.

Remove the hoop from the machine without unhooping the stabilizer and flip it so the back side of the embroidery is facing up. Spray the right side of the back piece with temporary adhesive, and smooth it into place within the dieline.

Hand lifting one corner of layered beige fabric squares secured in a rectangular embroidery hoop on a gray surface, with white stabilizer underneath.

Then return the hoop back onto the machine and embroider the final step which will embroider both the "back piece tackdown" as well as the "finishing edge."

Close-up of embroidery machine stitching an intricate white floral scroll design on brown fabric, attached to white fabric with a curved cutout.

Once the embroidery is finished, unhoop the stabilizer, and remove the excess stabilizer from around the design.

Square beige fabric cutlery cozy with white embroidery scroll designs on a dark gray background, resting on a torn piece of white paper.

Lastly, tear the silverware holder open by removing the small strip of tearaway stabilizer that remains at the top edge.

Hand holding a beige fabric cozy with white intricate floral embroidery, pulling a white cloth napkin from a scalloped top opening; dark gray background.