Felt Basket

Instructable for a felt basket where you can store your stuff in.

• Ruler
• Pencil
• Crochet yarn
• Sewing thread
• Needle
• Paper clips
• Pins
• Scissors
• Stanley knife
• Felt: 30 X 30 cm and thickness 2 mm

• (Take the ruler and place it on the felt).
• Mark 4 dots at 9 cm from their nearest sides.

• Connect the 4 dots by tracing 4 straight pencil lines (two horizontal and two vertical).
• Clearly indicate on thet dots where the two lines intersect.

• Use the Stanley knife to make a diagonal cut from the dot.
• (Where two lines intersect) to the corner of the felt mat.
• Do this for all 4 corners.

Fold the edges back to give the basket a better shape.

• Pin together the two opposite corners with a paper clip.
• Make sure that the top edge of both corners makes a straight line.

The paper clip will prevent the corners from moving while connecting the corners on the opposite side.

• Make sure that the top of the inner corners makes a straight line.
• Pin together both corners by using two pins on each side.

Remove the paper clips.

• Cut off a piece of 30 cm thread.
• Better too long than too short.

Pass the thread through the eye of the needle.

Tie a knot at the end of the wire.

• Sew the two corners together with a straight stich.
• Start at the corner and on the outside.

• When you have reached the end, tie a knot and make sure that the knot is on the outside.
• In a later step, the two outer pieces will cover the knots.

Cut the thread and repeat the steps in step 10 on the other side.

Attach the outer sides to the inner circle with a paper clip.

• Pin the remaining corners to the circle with a paper clip.
• Do this on both sides.
• Now you can adjust the opposite sides to make the edges fit nicely together.
• Make sure there is no space between the inside and the outside.

• When all the edges fit nicely to one another, stick a pin through the outer side and the already sewn corner of the inside.
• Do the same on the opposite side.

• Then insert a straight pin through the corners of the outer sides.
• Insert the pins vertically and in the middle where the two corners cross each other.
• Draw a pencil line on the left-hand side of the pin (approximately 2 mm).
• This will make a space of about 4 mm.

• Cut off the corner on the line.
• Save this corner for the next step.

• Use the saved corner to draw a line on the opposite corner.
• Cut out this corner on the line.

• Pin back the two loose ends with a paper clip.
• Adjust until the upper edges make a straight line.
• It may happen that the cut ends do not have the same length or are not making a straight line. This can be solved by trimming the edges.
• But beware: the more you cut away, the bigger the space between the ends!

Mark 4 dots on the felt.

• You can use crochet yarn for the connection.
• If you don’t have crochet yarn, you can double fould the thread and make the cross stitch twice.

Push the needle through the back of the felt.

Insert the needle now diagonally in the front of the other end.

Insert the needle on the same side in the remaining dot from the back of the felt.

Insert the needle at the front of the remaining point.

Pull the thread through the inside of the basket.

• Then insert the needle at approximately the same height from the inside to the outside.
• Make sure you go through one layer of felt.

• The wire must be located between the two layers of felt.
• This should not be visible between the ends.

Make a knot.

Repeat step 23 to connect the other side.