Fabric Basket DIY Tutorial ~ Free-Tutorial.net

Fabric Basket DIY Free Sewing Tutorial and Pattern

You will need...

    'floral garland blue' fabric
    'floral garland pink' fabric
    'floral garland yellow' fabric
    lining
    Broderie anglaise trim
    Bias binding
    stiff interfacing
    heavyweight fusible interfacing
    all purpose sewing thread

How-to step by step...

Step 1

Using a water-soluble marker or a dressmaker's pencil, transfer the base template to the wrong side of the printed fabric, lining fabric, stiff interfacing, and heavyweight interfacing, and cut out the shapes. Following the manufacturer's instructions, iron the heavy weight interfacing to the wrong side of the printed fabric base. Also iron heavyweight fusible interfacing to the wrong side of the printed fabric side and strap pieces.

Step 2

Pin the two shorter edges of the printed fabric side pieces with right sides together and raw edges even.

Step 3

Stitch a 1 cm (3/8in) seam, stopping 5mm (1/4in) from the lower edge;

Step 4

press the seam open.

Step 5

Topstitch 7mm (1/4in) from each side of the seam line. Staystitch slightly less than the 5mm (1/4")from the lower edge, and snip into the curved seam allowance at regular intervals.

Step 6

With right sides together and raw edges even, pin the lower edge of the printed fabric side piece all around the edge of the printed fabric base, lining up the side seams with the notches on the base. The snips in the seam allowance on the lower edge will open up to allow it to fit onto the base.

Step 7

Stitch a 5mm seam all around.

Step 8

Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the lining pieces, omitting the top stitching of the seam. Lay the stiff interfacing for the base (which you cut out in step 1) on the base, and hand sew it to the seam allowance in a few places. With the printed fabric right side out and the lining wrong side out, slip the lining inside the printed fabric so that the two layers have their wrong sides together and the seams are lined up.

Step 9

Pin and then machine baste 5mm (1/4" in) from the top edge.

Step 10

Starting at one of the seams, pin broderie anglaise (eyelet) trim to the right side of the printed fabric all around the top edge, aligning the straight edge of the trim with the raw edge of the printed fabric. When you get back to your starting point, turn under 5mm ( 1/4 in) on the end, and lap this over the raw edge of the starting end. Machine baste 5mm (1/4 in) from the top edge.