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How To: Bamboo Knife Holder
've been browsing some of the kitchen stuff at the Home Expressions Show and also online for the past couple of weeks. There are tons of ideas for our house. We haven't gotten around to decorating fully (who ever says they are done decorating anyway?) One thing I noticed were these trendy knife holders for the kitchen.

A painted box with bamboo inside to hold the knives. And these things sell for $50.00 (small) and $89.00 (large)!! Ouch! I'm going to show you how to make a similar product that will cost you under $10.

You'll want to head to your local Dollar Store for all the supplies.

Posted by Tawny B. from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Published 26th March 2010 • See Tawny B.'s 20 projects »

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Step 1
Measure around your container. Cut a rectangle of fabric that is the measurement plus one inch and however much of height you want on the decorative band plus one inch.

*** Yes, I'm using the Man Fabric again. I didn't ask Terry which fabric he wanted for this particular project, but I knew he would say the Man Fabric. I wasn't going to use this fabric, but when I took a look at our kitchen I realized it was the only fabric that matched. We have brown countertops and forest green painted cupboards and blinds. Not my favourite choice of colour scheme, but it'll do until we get enough money to redo the kitchen the way we like. ***
Step 2
Use hot glue to make a "hem" on the bottom and one side of the band.
Step 3
Glue the rectangle band of fabric to the container top. Make sure the "hemmed" side of the band goes over top of the unfinished side. And have a little bit of the band hanging over the top.
Step 4
Fold the leftover fabric from the top over into the container and glue it down. It doesn't have to be pretty on the inside, so use as much glue as you need, no one will see it anyway.
Step 5
Decorate your container however you like. I added a band of wide ribbon into mine.
Step 6
Pour some sand, sugar, rice of beans into the bottom of the container. At least a cup of material should be enough.
Step 7
Fill the container with as many bamboo skewers as you can possibly fit inside it. This container took 500!
Step 8
And voila! For a grand total of $8.50, I've got my own personalized, matching, "designer" bamboo knife holder.
Step 9
Doesn't it look great in my kitchen?
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zoë · 156 projects 20th June 2010

Awesome! I've been looking at those "nifty knife holders" but for some reason can't quite bring myself to cough up the dough. But I did see those swishy whatever stick your knife in a box thing and thought that was pretty....cool...but to put them in bamboo! Ingenious!

Tawny B. · Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA · 20 projects 27th March 2010

I don't have cable. But it's a relatively simple idea - not rocket science. I'm sure people have thought of it before.