The Propane Chef owns and uses many knives. Underway, they can lose their edge rumbling around assorted drawers and are unacceptably dangerous if left out in the open as the Fox rocks to and fro. Therefore, one of my earliest sewing projects was one of the smallest: fabricating two knife bags out of scrap Cordura and some piping I had left over from projects in the remote past. 
I used the same design as a roll-up canvas tool bag. I laid out 4 or 5 knives per bag (keeping each rolled up bag small enough to fit in a drawer or on a shelf in the galley) and made the back panel of the finished bag about 1/2" higher than the length of the longest knife. The front panel was cut in the same shape as the back panel, but about 5" shorter. I trimmed the top edge of the front panel with piping to give it that sassy, finished look and sewed the front panel to the back panel. Laying out the knives again on top of the bag’s front panel, I marked lines between each knife and then stitched compartments through the front and back panels according to the lines. Sewed a strip of Velcro at the appropriate positions inside and out, to act as a quick and easy closure for the bag. Finished the rest of the edges with piping.
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