DIY fabric baskets

The home decor is distinguished from the office or any other by various trifles and household items created by your own hands in the original design. Soft baskets are suitable for storing handmade items, toys, cosmetics and linen. They are lightweight, compact, mobile, so they are popular among those who value the coziness and comfort of their home. Make beautiful fabric baskets with your own hands using one of these interesting ideas.

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Foldable clothing organizer

This basket is suitable for storing fabrics, clothes, toys. The walls are reinforced with cardboard, so the box must be cleaned with a dry brush:

1. Having decided on the dimensions, cut out 5 cardboard parts for the bottom and walls.
2. Fold the walls on a piece of fabric folded in half, cut off the excess, not forgetting to make an allowance for the lower and side seam. Cover the top with the second part of the fabric.
3. Sew from the bottom and the edges. Fold in the box, sew the side seam manually.
4. Cover the bottom with fabric, stitch.
5. Connect all the parts into a box, sew.
6. Along the edge you can put a satin ribbon, which will give the box a finished look.

Important! On the basis of this basket, a suitcase box is easily designed. Add the cover detail with the valve and mount the magnetic button on the wall.

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Rectangular basket with handles

A convenient option for a textile basket resembling a cardboard box with carved handles. Sizes of the finished product 15 * 14 cm.

Prepare:

• linen and cotton fabric with polka dots;
• synthetic winterizer;
• pattern of the bottom 16 * 16 cm, the side of 16 * 17 cm;
• Sewing supplies - pins, centimeter, scissors.

You can make a basket of fabric with your own hands according to this model in this way:

1. Transfer the pattern to the fabric, cut out for the bottom 2 pieces of fabric with a pattern - 1 from the side and 1 from sintepon. For the sides we prepare 4 parts from each material. Add 1 cm from the edges to allowance.
2. Oval handles will be cut on two side parts. We collect the parts in this order - flax, synthetic winterizer, calico, and chop off the parts.
3. From the side of syntepon we make a seam along the contour of the oval. The same thing is repeated from the side of fabric with a pattern. We turn out the details, carefully ironed.
4. We collect the remaining 2 sides in this order: linen, synthetic winterizer.
5. Stitch the side parts, not reaching 1 cm to the bottom edge.
6. Having sewed all 4 parts, we get a cylinder. We turn it inside out, sew the remaining 2 blanks from fabric with a pattern.
7. We add the bottom parts, sew them around the perimeter. To make the bottom denser, we lay a number of decorative lines.
8. Now you need to assemble all the parts. We straighten the seams, attach on all sides. We cut off the ends of the corners, remove the excess fabric from the seams with “zigzag” scissors.
9. We turn out the basket, attach the inlay along the edge. We make sure that the seam from the inside is closed with the outer stitch.

On the basis of this tissue basket, other options can be made - with a wide bottom and low walls or with handles on each of the 4 sides. Combining fabrics on the inside and the front, you can make an interesting set of fabric baskets of different sizes and designs.

Important! Decorate the finished little thing with wooden buttons, decorative stitching or felt flowers.

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Textile handbag

We will figure out how to sew a portable basket. You can take it with you on the road, on a picnic and in the country. Long handles make her look like a small bag. It is also unusual that it consists of one part, combining the bottom and sides.

Operating procedure:

1. Draw 2 rectangles on the paper, touching on the long side. The lower, shorter in length, will become the bottom, and the upper - the side walls. If we denote the width of the left side wall as N, then the width of the bottom is 2N, and the right side wall is N + 1 cm.
2. Transfer the pattern to the non-woven fabric, the front and the wrong fabric, cut it out.
3. Iron the inside and the non-woven part with a hot iron, combining them into one.
4. Make an inner liner. To do this, sew the sides and seams on the base.
5. Sew handles from strips of fabric.
6. Assemble the outer part, fasten it with a lining on the pins.
7. Fold, stitch the edges, leaving room for the pens.
8. Sew the handles on the sides, unpack the basket with an iron.

There is another version of this basket, for which you do not have to prepare a separate pattern:

1. Cut 1 part and 2 fabric parts from padding polyester, the size of a sheet of office paper.
2. Seal one of the pieces of fabric with a synthetic winterizer, stitching it along the edge.
3. Fold the piece in half, sewing the left and right edges together.
4. The resulting bag. To make a rectangular basket out of it, stitch it, trim the corners.
5. We turn out the basket, sew on previously made handles.
6. Similarly, we sew the outer part, leaving an un sewn section on one edge.
7. Having turned the front and the lining sides inside out, we put them one into the other, stitch them around the edge.
8. It remains to turn the finished basket through the side hole and sew it manually.

Important! Having mastered with simple baskets, try to do the following - with external and internal pockets for small items.

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Basket-tray

Bright patchwork fabric baskets with your own hands will decorate the interior in any style. How do you like the idea of ​​making a soft basket using the patchwork technique for the kitchen? It can store pastries, bread, sweets, fruits.

Prepare:

• chintz shreds;
• cardboard;
• lining, seamy fabric;
• pattern-tray.

The order of the creative process:

1. Fold the shreds of different sizes with the classic “well” pattern and sew the parts starting from the center part.
2. We collect the bottom of the basket in this order: the wrong side, the lining and the patchwork block.
3. Mark the seams, quilting the fabric around the perimeter, not reaching the edge of 2 cm.
4. We lay out the pattern, cut out the part, cutting off the insulation and fabric from the inside.
5. We sew semicircular handles from bright fabric, twist, stitch.
6. We put cardboard in the middle so that the basket does not bend under the weight of things, and sew on top the detail of the lining, pre-cut according to the pattern.
7. Turn, sew, iron the edges.
8. Sew the sides by hand, seam over the edge.

Important! In this model, before washing, you will have to open the seam and remove the cardboard bottom. You can make a separate inner pocket where the base will freely enter.

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Crochet interior basket

Tie a simple basket of old shreds and rags, cutting them into pieces and assembling them into a long thread.

Important! For a soft bowl with a diameter of 22 * ​​9 cm, you need a little more than 1.6 m of homemade cotton twine.

Useful for work:

• hook 12 mm;
• scissors;
• trimming cotton fabric.

Operating procedure:

1. Tear the canvas into 4 cm wide tapes.
2. Twist the thread from the tape. To do this, fix one end on the door handle and twist the twine. To make the fabric easier to curl and hold its shape, wet it.
3. We knit the bottom of the “magic ring" in a way. Spread a loop on the 4 fingers of the left hand, hold the working thread with the little finger.
4. Having placed the hook under the upper part of the ringlet, we stretch the main thread through it. The first half-loop was obtained. We hold it, not letting it slip.
5. We make a crochet, stretch the working thread through the half-loop, tightening and fixing it on the ring.
6. Now we braid the ring with 8 columns.
7. We connect the ring by pulling the tail remaining from the loop set, closing the circle with the connecting column.
8. Continue knitting with double crochets to the desired diameter. Bowl baskets will be slightly rounded.

In such a soft basket it is convenient to store knitting, balls, knitting needles. It is easy to wash and very durable. And combining the color of the threads, you can make a unique, designer piece of furniture.

Important! Try knitting a similar basket of knitted thread. Such yarn is made from old t-shirts cut in a spiral.

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Cord Patchwork Basket

Let's see how to sew a basket of unnecessary scraps and scraps of fabric. This option is sewn on a sewing machine. Thanks to the frame made of synthetic cord, it holds its shape rigidly.

Here is the sewing process:

1. Connect the shreds into a long, flat ribbon.
2. Stitch the edge of the tape to the end of the string.
3. Then wrap the rope in a spiral with a cloth, secure with a straight seam.
4. Form a spiral, fasten with a zigzag seam.
5. Pulling a snail out of fabric and twine under the machine’s foot, build up and attach new rows wrapped in shreds.
6. Gradually, the basket will begin to round. Having sewn the height you need, form handles of 2-3 rows of stitched rope, finish sewing.

If there is no sewing machine at hand, then the same basket can be sewn manually, in any suitable size form - a bowl, a ball.

Important! This method is also suitable for sewing rugs and beach bags.

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Soft basket

Let's make a light basket of scraps of fabric with our own hands. According to the manufacturing principle, this basket is similar to the previous one, but the basket is stitched with the same fabric from which it is made. It turns out pretty tough form that can withstand heavy things.

Operating procedure:

1. Wrap a narrow ribbon around the end of the rope.
2. Fold in half and continue wrapping to form a loop.
3. After wrapping a straight section, attach it to the ring.
4. Fasten with stitches through the hole, grabbing the wrapped rope.
5. The result was a spiral with short and long rays, resembling the sun.
6. Continue to form the bottom, and then go to the walls of the basket.

Important! Use ribbons, yarn of different colors and textures to wind, to get an interesting ethnic pattern.

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Woven fabric basket

To make this basket look like a wicker one to one, take a plain plain fabric - linen, burlap. But an ordinary chintz, bright colors, will do.

We take the following steps with these materials:

1. Cut strips 50 cm long from the fabric.
2. Fold them in half and sew along the edge. Turn out, putting on scissors, and make 2 straight seams with contrasting thread along the edges.
3. Lay out 10 strips horizontally and 10 vertically on a table covered with a cloth.
4. Secure the horizontal tapes with pins so that they do not move during operation.
5. Stitch the stripes in a checkerboard pattern. Unfasten from the table.
6. Form the corners by twisting the ribbons diagonally.
7. Clamp the edge with clothespins and stretch the strips inward, weaving them into the pattern.

You will get a wicker, soft basket with a serrated edge that will look good in the kitchen, in the nursery and is suitable for rustic interiors.

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A practical basket made of cloth with your own hands is a useful and beautiful piece of furniture and a loyal assistant in the fight for a clean and tidy house. There are a lot of options and ideas for textile boxes - choose the right one and create your own unique products.