For some reason, I just love covering my vanity with little dishes and baskets and bowls to hold rings and earrings and all the miscellaneous stuff that shows up there. It makes the chaos seems a little more manageable, perhaps, all cutely divided up.
Anyways, here's an easy project to make a coiled rope basket, perfect for a little holiday gift. You can make it as big or as tiny as you like, it just depends on how long you keep a-coilin'.
Anyways, here's an easy project to make a coiled rope basket, perfect for a little holiday gift. You can make it as big or as tiny as you like, it just depends on how long you keep a-coilin'.
Step 2:
Bend the last half-inch or so of the rope back over onto itself and wrap it tightly with 3 or 4 loops of the thread.
Bend the last half-inch or so of the rope back over onto itself and wrap it tightly with 3 or 4 loops of the thread.
Step 4: Flip the coil so that the loose end is now facing away from you and the thread is hanging down from the center. Wrap the thread out and away from you, up, and stitch down through the center of the coil using the needle. (Follow my words, not necessarily my picture; I realized I photographed this confusingly) Do this again and again until you have fixed another coil of the rope around our initial one. The basic principle of this basket weaving technique is to wrap the outside coil of rope to the previous coil, going around and around in a spiral. You need the needle to fit the thread between the previous coil and IT'S previous coil, NOT to sew the rope coils together by piercing the actual rope. Keep going around and around until you've reached the desired size of your base... If you finish a length of thread, tie it off and tie the next piece of thread to the same knot. Tuck the ends between the coils as you keep going, wrapping them into the weave of the basket. |
Then start curving the shape of the basket up by coiling the rope a little higher with each revolution, until you reach...
...however high you wish it to be! Try playing with the colors of thread, for a fun twist (get it?)!!!
...however high you wish it to be! Try playing with the colors of thread, for a fun twist (get it?)!!!
When you've reached the desired size of your basket, cut off the length of rope. Stitch several times around the end and the coil below just as you have been, stitching tightly and very closely together until you have sort of "capped" the end of the rope. Tie off the thread and use the needle to stitch it back through several loops to keep it from coming loose.
There you have it, my lovelies! Weave away!