When my kids were little, our kitchen table felt like the center of everything: homework sprawled beside cereal bowls, my husband bringing in mugs of coffee, my mother dropping by with a basket of fabric scraps. Now that my son is ten and my daughter is eight, I still love small handmade touches that warm the home and remind me of my childhood summers mending with my grandmother. As an American mom in my forties, proud of our family traditions and the practical creativity that runs in our clan, I find reversible bowl cozies are a simple project that blends…


