Bowl and Plate Cozies

Bowl cozies were a big fad a few years ago. I made a few for others, but never bothered with any for myself. In order to make them microwavable, you had to use a special 100% cotton batting called Wrap-N-Zap. You couldn't use just regular cotton batting because it has polyester scrim. And everything - thread, batting, fabric - had to be 100% cotton with no sythetics whatsoever in order to be able to put it into the microwave oven "safely". Even with Wrap-N-Zap, the guidelines for use were so stringent that I didn't feel it was worth the bother. I know that there are some people that didn't bother following the rules and claimed they never had a mishap. I also know that I used to swim in Lake Erie when the water was really rough. It was fun, but also foolhardy, and I would never recommend someone else do it just because I (and my siblings) did it and survived. People have died that way. So, if I'm going to take a risk, it certainly isn't going to be over a bowl cozy. There were also some people who did say that they had bowl cozies burn in their microwaves. And I know that some people said that they never put their bowl cozies in the microwave oven, but trying to maneuver a hot bowl of soup into a bowl cozy seemed like a recipe for injury, so I decided to just stick with my hot pot holders.
This summer, I'm hoping to take my daughter and grandson camping. As I was mulling over what I already have and what I still need for a camping trip, I remembered my camping dishes. Metal camping dishes. And I recalled that when we took them on a previous trip, we were painfully reminded that metal dishes can get quite hot when you put hot food in them. So, I determined to make plate and bowl cozies for them. And I didn't have to worry about everything being 100% cotton because they would not be going in a microwave. They would just be providing protection for our hands when they contained hot food. As it turns out, I did have a remnant of Wrap-N-Zap left and was able to cut 3 - 10" squares and 1 - 13" square from it. For the remainder, I just used batting scraps. 
As for the fabric, I found the ice cream and popsicle fabric remnants in my stash. I only had a strip of the popsicle fabric that was just barely over 10", so I could only use it for the bowl cozies. I ordered the cookies and Bits and Bites fabrics online.

Having never made plate cozies before, I did an online search to see what I could find. The first YouTube video I checked out used special precut batting. Not only do I not know where to get such batting, I don't care. I have more than enough batting remnants to make bowl cozies for my entire family, were I so inclined. I'm not, but I did want to make a set of 4. I ended up following this video: 

And it worked well. 
For the bowl cozies, I used these instructions from Craftsy that I'd used when I made them before. I had already cut out 10" squares of fabric when I realized that the instructions called for 10½". No matter, it's just a bowl cozy and the extra half inch would not make a significant difference. And they turned out fine. 
Now, to figure out what else I need for our camping trip.