Is this for a drawer or for display? If it’s for a drawer, your options are more limited in terms of aesthetics.
Last year I made a couple of pencil trays out of oak 1x’s that I resawed into slats a bit more than 1/4". Pretty much the same sorry of project. Be creative. Uniform boxes are boring. Make the boxes for the utensils the exact size to store them so you end up with a more interesting pattern of lines.
This was made to fit into a drawer.
Losing fingers since 1969