more baskets
I have some more baskets to share. I've been kind of running low on creative juices following the Easter craft-a-ganza, so I'm just gonna share a bunch of projects I made in March and let you think that I'm a supermom when in reality I'm just, like, a lazy blogger. Okay, full disclosure out of the way, then. Baskets!
First the ugly.
holding ugliness, among other things
After I got this book in the mail I thought I would start from first principles, so I made the "basic basket." Only I thought it would look nifty if I alternated oval weavers with flat ones and turned out this messy looking mess. Not hideous, just not something I want to look at every day in my home. So I have an extra gift basket come Christmas. I already told Dan he needs to build more basket storage in the basement.
Then I made this one for Dan which I LOVE.
for muffins or eggs, as you like it
This is everything a basket should be, in my opinion. Simple, baskety, with a functional handle that doesn't require adding additional pieces at the end. It's called a muffin basket in the book, but we use it to gather eggs at the end of the day. Maybe I'll make more of these if we want to give away muffins in the future.
Now here's one I actually made recently. When my bestie Oona called to say she's getting married (!!!) I knew I had to make her a special engagement present. Indeed, I blurted out over the phone, "I'm going to make you something. It might be like... a basket filled with soap."
a big basket for big news
I wanted to make a basket that would be useful in the married home, so I decided to make something kind of massively big. This one looked big enough to store all of our Thomas tracks and trains, so theoretically it could store towels, or linens, or sex toys or whatever it is that childless people keep in their homes. Really I don't know.
It's also the first basket I made with a filled-in bottom.
sturdy bottom
I love the way the handles look wrapped in the sea grass. I went a little overboard securing them with hot glue, but I wanted to make sure the thing would be super strong for lugging a heavy load of sex toys. God forbid a handle pop off in mid flight and then Oona blame me for breaking all her expensive sex toys. Also the embroidery is made of seagrass too.
What, too much about the sex toys? Well that's what Oona gets for making me a bachelorette party packed with penis paraphanalia.
And yes, I did fill the basket with soap, and jam and relish and a jillion packing peanuts. In the future I'll be a bit more aware of standard package sizes before I start weaving... I had to cast about for an applieance box to send this thing to Seattle.
That's all the baskets I have to share for now. I'm slowing down a bit on the baskets since I realized they cost me at least $10 a piece in materials, which is kind of a lot to be throwing around when there's a lack of basement storage and no one really asking me for baskets. The kids ARE asking me for t-shirts, but I can't figure out what's wrong with my serger and it doesn't help that I want to punch it every time I turn it on. Maybe I'll just order some more reed on Amazon...