Fabric Baskets

I absolutely love baskets!  I use to teach classes on making baskets with reed that  I dyed myself (I’ll show you some in another post).  But right now I am loving trying out some fabric baskets.  I’ve made a couple lately.

Small Fabric Basket

This basket is from a book I recently purchased called Zakka Sewing.  A great little book with Japanese projects for the household. I took their pattern, and made it my own size, and just followed their assembly directions.  It is lined with cotton batting, which gives it a soft yet stable form.  The pink linen is a thrifted piece, I love the pink!  And the outside is made of cotton.

The pink linen w/soft cotton batting inside.

And here is another basket that I made, just an experiment on my part:

Woven Fabric Basket

Sorry about the picture, I didn’t have good lighting at the time I took this, but you get the idea.  I took some strips of fabric and wove them, leaving the edges raw.  I then fused them together with an iron on interfacing. And formed the basket.  I think that I will be making more, and may do a tutorial in the future, hopefully soon!

Well, off to work.  Enjoy your day!  It’s Friday!