DIY baskets from improvised materials

It's amazing how unnecessary garbage turns into useful objects. From the most ordinary materials, which are literally cluttered in abundance in literally every home, you can make decorative and practical boxes for storing things, flower arrangements and sweets. For a basket with your own hands from improvised materials, take plastic bottles, corrugated cardboard, jute rope, scraps of fabric. What to do with all this in order to make ready-made crafts that are practical in application - we will tell in this article.

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Cardboard basket

A simple basket is obtained from scraps of cardboard and paper twine. To create it:

1. Cut a round base.
2. From a rectangular piece, make a cone and round the bottom and top.
3. Glue the parts together.
4. Attach a handle from a long length.
5. Wrap the basket with double-sided tape and stick the paper tape.
6. Insert colored paper inside and cut along the edge.

Important! The outer part of the workpiece can be decorated with sisal, wrapping and crepe paper.

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Twine basket

Under the base, prepare a wide plastic bottle, and then the order of work will be as follows:

1. Having cut the bottle, coat it with PVA glue.
2. Starting from the bottom, wrap the container with a rope.
3. From a thick wire, form a handle and fasten it to the plastic.
4. Wrap the handle with twine or cloth.
5. Sew a liner from the fabric. Place it inside the basket and tuck it.
6. Decorate the edges with lace.

Important! This method can be used to create containers for storing small items in the bathroom and in the kitchen.

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Textile basket

Sew a neat basket with your own hands from improvised materials - shreds, scraps, thick threads, strips of knitwear. With the help of these workshops you can organize the storage of sewing accessories and knitting threads.

From fabric

For this organizer basket you will need a square piece of dense fabric, with which we will do the following:

1. Draw a circle with a curly edge on the fabric.
2. Cut out. Make cuts along the edge so that the cut keeps its shape.
3. Make holes for the tape with a puncher.
4. Assemble the blank onto the tape. Pulling the braid, you get a soft basket without a handle.
5. Garnish a basket with flowers, buttons, and lace.

There is another way to make a fabric basket without sewing. For this:

1. Cover the plastic base with a thin satin fabric.
2. Attach the wire handle and wrap it with ribbons.

Important! This basket is suitable for wedding arrangements, artificial flowers, soft toys and candy bouquets.

From shreds

Using the technique of patchwork, you can create beautiful baskets with your own hands from improvised materials - shreds of chintz and braid. A manufacturing workshop looks like this:

1. Using a paper template, transfer the pattern to the fabric.
2. Connect the parts on the sewing machine.
3. Sew a plain fabric lining.
4. Connect the parts together by sewing in a handle full of padding polyester.

You will get a soft basket for sewing supplies, children's toys or Easter eggs.

Important! An additional layer of syntepon will help to give volume and shape to the fabric basket.

From threads and knitted tape

For this simple way to make do-it-yourself baskets, you only need thick yarn or knitted tape. The latter can be done by cutting old t-shirts.

Operating procedure:

1. Weave a long braid of fabric or thread.
2. Form the bottom and walls by stitching a pigtail.
3. Make another braid. Pass in a wire and bend.
4. Fasten the handle to the basket.

Important! Instead of one long handle, you can make two short baskets on each side.

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PET ribbon bast

Durable do-it-yourself baskets are made from an improvised material like regular water bottles. There are many ways to make PET baskets. Let us dwell on the most interesting - weaving from a plastic rope.

Important! The bottle is cut into thin strips using a homemade bottle cutter. It is made of a tightly fixed blade and a wooden base with a tape guide. The rope is thinner and more flexible than manually cut with scissors.

Creative process:

1. Cut the bottles into ropes using a bottle cutter.
2. Twist and melt the plastic strips with a construction hairdryer.
3. Make a wire basket frame.
4. Wrap the rods and handle with plastic tape.

Important! It is convenient to make a wire base out of a bottle cap with rods threaded through it. It turns out a design resembling a bicycle wheel. By bending the knitting needles and wrapping them with a rope, you can very quickly make a light basket for mushrooms.

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Basket baskets

Continuing the topic of recycling unnecessary plastic, we draw your attention to plastic bags. They make soft organizers-baskets for threads, fabrics, vegetables and fruits:

1. We cut the packages into thick ribbons, connect them together.
2. We crochet the basket, starting from the bottom.
3. Knit the beads with a synthetic cord, then the basket will stand firmly.

You can weave a pigtail out of packages and sew it together, make a round basket with your own hands.

Important! From materials at hand such as bags, baskets are very durable and lightweight. They are not afraid of water, so they can be used in the bathroom.

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Clothespin barrel

Small baskets for souvenirs and pastries can be made from wooden clothespins:

1. Take a clean plastic bucket.
2. Disassemble the clothespins and stick the halves on the plastic.
3. Paint the wood with stain or acrylic paints.
4. Insert the lace inside the barrel and tuck it out.
5. Tie with ribbons or a thin rope.
6. Attach the handle.

Important! To make it easier to glue wooden parts to plastic, degrease it with acetone and treat it with a large emery cloth.

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Paper baskets

Paper is one of the most common improvised materials for a do-it-yourself basket. From this material organizers and baskets can be made, durable and roomy, for any needs.

Let us dwell on the most complex, but effective method of manufacturing paper baskets - weaving from newspaper tubes:

1. Fold a newspaper or magazine several times in half.
2. We bend the corner of the sheet onto a knitting needle, grease it with glue and wrap it in a vine.
3. From a piece of cardboard we cut out 2 rectangular parts. We fit them with wallpaper.
4. We spread the sticks on the cardboard, grease with glue, press. We get the base of the basket.
5. We start weaving, bending one vine under another. If the tubes are too short - we increase by inserting one into the other.
6. Gradually form the walls of the basket.
7. Weave 6 tubes and bending one under the other, make a handle.
8. We braid the edges of the basket with a pigtail and cut the vine.

Newspaper baskets are very durable. They can be washed if varnished finished product.

Important! If you need a white basket, paint before weaving the straws with an aqueous solution of acrylic paint and varnish. You can add wood color to paper stain and acrylic paint.

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Salted Dough Bast

This option for making baskets is suitable for children's creativity and the manufacture of decorative compositions:

1. Make a cool dough of flour and salt in a ratio of 1: 2. A cropped bottle serves as a blank for the basket.
2. We roll the rods, apply them to the base. First, we lay the strips across, then along. To make the dough stick better, grease the joints with water.
3. We make a flagellum of two sausages, fix it along the edge.
4. We decorate a basket with paper flowers.
5. Coat the basket with spray varnish to protect it from water.

Important! Wrap the rest of the dough in a film and put it in a cool place. For color dough, add a little gouache when kneading.

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Easter baskets for eggs and Easter cake

DIY baskets for Easter eggs and Easter cake can also be made from improvised materials.

Lace basket

For one testicle, make a light lace basket-stand:

1. Sew a piece of lace around the edge.
2. Dip it in a starch solution. Spread, lay the egg inside.
3. Decorate the dried stand with ribbons, flowers, attach a handle made of wire wrapped in threads.

Important! You can take a little sisal and make a nest inside the basket, in which the pysanka will lie.

Egg Tray Basket

Using the technique of weaving newspaper tubes, make a basket for eggs:

1. On the basis of their cardboard weave a rectangular box with a handle.
2. Trim the sides of the tray. Insert the basket inside.
3. Sponge the basket with acrylic paint, cover with acrylic varnish.

In such a basket it is convenient to carry eggs.

Important! For 6-10 eggs, it is easier to make a basket by gluing a tray with cut colored paper and attaching a handle to it.

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To make the basket your own made from improvised materials beautiful, decorate the product with lace ribbon, braid with a pattern, beads. Paper trays toned with paint. Using these little secrets, you can make a practical, sophisticated item that will last more than one year.