Hello friends, this is Jennifer Long from Sew A Story, a fabric designer with Riley Blake Designs and a doll and quilt pattern designer.
Create the cutest woven basket for your home! Choose your favorite precut 2.5″-wide strips, then weave them into a basket shape, and bind. You can use the basket for storage, for decor, or even for holidays!
This pattern uses templates and is beginner-friendly. This basket is so fun to make that you’ll want to make one for every occasion and season. Wouldn’t it be darling as an Easter basket or Halloween candy bucket? It would be so cute as a table centerpiece to hold napkins or silverware. It can even hold small toys for endless hours of play for a child!
Let’s start sewing! Just gather the supplies below, and then download the pattern. Don’t forget to share your Little Red’s Basket Pattern on social media using the hashtag #SASLittleRedBasket and tag @sewastory_jenniferlong
Tools
- Sewing Machine/hand-sewing needles
- Rotary Cutter
- Quilting Ruler
- Self-Healing Mat
- Iron and Wool Mat
- Heavyweight fusible interfacing
- Craft fusible interfacing
- Turning tool or chopstick
- Embroidery floss (optional)
Materials
- The Little Red’s Basket Pattern
- And these fabric requirements:
I used fabric from my To Grandmothers House Fabric Collection with Riley Blake Designs! The colors in this fabric collection (in stores February 2024) are gorgeous shades of red, pink, green, and brown and feature small mushrooms, apples, strawberries, and the characters from Little Red Riding Hood.
Learn my process for prepping my strips for a woven fabric basket! I also share my favorite products that give the basket a strong and sturdy finish— including Thermoweb’s Heavyweight fusible interfacing.
Jennifer Long grew up training to be a professional ballet dancer. She taught ballet and ran her own dance studio all the while sewing and designing costumes for herself and many of her collages and students. Jennifer is married and lives on a rural acreage in Prairie Canada with her husband and 4 children. She sold her studio to raise to raise her children and wanted to find dolls and toys for her children with healthy body images. She immersed herself Modern Rag Doll design and soon found she had a unique set of skills for Doll Making from all the years of costume design and aesthetic skills from the dance training. Her love of color and fabric has led her to become a professional Modern Rag Doll Designer and Quilt Pattern Designer designing not only under her own label (Bee Sew Inspired), but also for authors, fabric designers and International Companies around the world! Jennifer remains passionate about teaching and is the founder of two FREE educational FB groups Inspired Doll Making and Inspired Quilt Making. Come join her on this creative journey!!!