This lined basket is made from
soft woven fabric, and is useful for storing knitting wool. It is not designed
to carry heavy items.
The technique used for the
machine-embroidered panel is outlined in the mosaic tutorial.
Whisper weft iron-on interfacing
is used to add ‘body’ to the basket. When finished, the circumference is 60.5cms,
and the base has a diameter of 19cms. The finished height is 13.5cms. The
fabric handle is 31cms in length.
Bias binding is used to enclose the
raw edges on the top edge.
The flowers are made from circles
of fabric. A small running stitch around the edge is used to gather the circle
in toward the centre.
The basket has two main
components, for which patterns can be easily made:
1 rectangle 62.5
by 13.5cms; and
1 circle (base)
with a diameter of 21cms.
These patterns include 1cm seam
allowance.
There is a variation from the
mosaic tutorial. A layer of black crystal organza replaces the tulle netting. The
mosaic patches do not overlap, so fusible webbing was not used to secure them in
place.
