This birch-print basket is a sweet little project for a rainy Sunday. Making your own fabric baskets, at its most basic, is a straight-forward DIY that has one fantastic benefit: you can optimize storage space by custom-size it to the shelf you're putting it on. For this particular basket, I bought a yard of thick cotton canvas from a local fabric shop for less than $10. The stiffer the fabric, the better the structure. The corners of the canvas seemed to naturally curl, reminding me of the papery outer bark of a birch tree.
After measuring the shelf space and adding an inch on all sides for a 1/2" seam allowance, I cut out the 5 rectangular pieces which would later form the sides and bottom. Using a newly purchased block printing starter kit, I cut out 4 rubber stamps to mimic the line markings on birch bark.
Stamp out your print, press to fix the paint, and sew away. To make it easy, I didn't double-fold the seam or serge to hide the fraying edges, but feel free to do as you please. Make sure you sew up the top seam last.
awesome!
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I didn't realize it was a DIY at first glance.
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