Plastic basket for needlework with own hands
It can be made from a large plastic bottlea convenient basket for handicrafts with your own hands. In such a basket it will be convenient to keep skeins of yarn and threads, knitting needles, scissors, knitting and embroidery. Since a basket is usually a wicker product, then your plastic basket with the help of colored threads will look like a wicker one.
To make such a basket, you will need the following materials:
- a large plastic bottle for 6 liters or a bucket from food;
- wool yarn of different colors and thicknesses;
- good sharp scissors or knife.
Use scissors or a sharp knife to cut off the top.bottles. Wash the bottom part, which you will use for the basket, thoroughly. Then make vertical cuts around the entire circumference of the bottle, stopping a few centimeters short of its bottom. It is better to mark the places of the cuts in advance so that they are even and at equal intervals. Or, if you are not a perfectionist, cut as you like.Tie a thread through one of the cuts on the backsides and start weaving it around all the cuts in a checkerboard pattern. Use threads of different colors and thicknesses to create a bright and colorful pattern. If you are not going to make an inner cover for the basket, then weave the yarn to the very edges of the basket. Wind the last rows of threads on good glue. Or sew a cover from fabric and put it on the basket, as shown in the first photo.
