We offer you to watch master classes with step-by-step photos that will teach you how to make an Easter basket out of leather, felt, hay, straw, newspaper tubes and plastic bottles.
It is interesting to see MK with step-by-step photos, where it will be described in detail how to make a basket with your own hands. It can be made from paper, cardboard, newspapers and even fur.
How to make a DIY Easter basket?
This can be made for this bright holiday. But then this container will come in handy. She will not only decorate the interior, but will help lay eggs if they need to be transported over some distance. You can put chocolate ones here to present to children. For this kind of work you will need:
- cardboard egg tray for 30 pieces;
- scissors;
- paper or newspapers;
- a piece of sewing;
- PVA glue;
- water;
- clothespins;
- cardboard box with low sides or other.
Cut a strip of 5 eggs on one side so that you end up with a blank of 25. Then it will have a square shape.
To make the Easter basket further, take the finished lid. And if there is none, then cut the blank out of the box, select and mark its sides, glue it at the corners. Fix in this position with clothespins until dry.
Glue double-sided tape around the perimeter of this blank. Make paper tubes out of A4 sheets, attach them with double tape.
You can use newspaper tubes for this. Cover the paper blanks with a water-based stain and glue them around the perimeter of the outer part of the bottom. Create an initial row with 3 working tubes.
Then you can move on to the next one. You will create it using blanks with two working tubes.
Create the sidewalls of the basket in this way. Make the top row using a pigtail pattern. Take PVA glue, add the same amount of water here and spread this solution inside and out with a brush. Now bend the uprights by cutting them off. Glue these blanks. On the other sides, you need to glue newspaper strips so that these blanks become taller. There will be 7 of them on each side.
Now attach other strips to these blanks to make handles. Then join them at the top to form a wider handle. Then you need to grease it with a solution of PVA glue, and while it dries, you need to cover the egg tray with a water-based stain. When all this is dry, place light-colored sewing in the basket. It turned out to be a very beautiful thing.
The second Easter basket is made in an equally interesting way. It can be used not only during the holiday. Such a thing will be a great gift or decoration for your home. Take:
- artificial fur;
- scissors;
- a glass;
- plastic circle;
- threads;
- a needle.
Here's how to make a basket out of fur. First, cut strips from it. Screw them out through the remaining holes. From fur you need to cut 2 identical circles and sew them. As you can see, first you put the strips evenly here, then you will sew them to these circles.
When you have inserted the last such beam, close the remaining hole in the circle. Then put a glass on it, raise these rays and fix them here with an elastic band.
Now cut into long strips and start braiding your workpiece with them. You can use one long one. You will hide its tip inside. Then, tuck the top collar up to make it more voluminous. You can remove this base from the glass.
Since you tucked this fur strip on top, you can insert the wire here. This will make the basket more durable at the top. Now move on to the design of the basket handle. It will also be possible to make this blank out of the wire, and then start winding a strip of fur on it, gluing that one.
It remains to sew this handle into place, you will get such a beautiful basket.
See also how to make DIY cards and gifts for Easter.
How to make a basket with your own hands from fabric?
If you have felt, we suggest looking at how to make a basket with your own hands from this material. If you need to create this product, then watch a simple master class.
Cut a circle out of this material. Its diameter is 44 cm. Now, along the edge of this workpiece, cut such wide small rays at the same distance. Then you will need to raise them, placing one inner one in front of the two outer ones. Take a needle and sew a nice thread around the edge to hold the edges of the basket in this position. It remains to decorate this product with flowers made of satin ribbons.
And here's how to make a felt basket using another master class with step-by-step photos.
Take:
- felt;
- scissors;
- hot glue gun or textile glue;
- rectangular plastic container.
Cut the felt into strips of equal length and width. Place a rectangular container made of the same material on a plastic cup. It must first be turned over. Now put three strips in one direction on the bottom of this container, start braiding them with ribbons in a checkerboard pattern. The photo shows how to then fold these strips. When you finish flying to the top, fit them, cut off the excess and glue here.
Here's another interesting example. The next pattern shows what size you need to cut the blank out of felt, and what shape it is.
First, you can redraw this pattern onto cardboard, then attach this template to the fabric and cut it out. Now sew the sidewalls with a cross, joining the adjacent sides together. Make cutouts at the top so that you can lift and carry this basket.
First, cut out paired pieces from two fabrics of different colors. Now sew along the edge. Assemble the product. Sew the sides and bottom. To make the basket have multiple compartments, create partitions from the same material. You can sew or glue felt flowers onto a large sidewall. Arrange the butterflies, ladybug, grass right there.
See how bizarre these pieces can be. For the next one, you need to cut out an octagon. Place this paper template on a felt square. Cut out the workpiece. Then cut 8 sections evenly, starting from the edge. Now lift the adjacent sidewalls, sew them on your hands. You will get a beautiful fabric basket.
You can make a fabric basket based on a cardboard blank. This base will help the product keep its shape. If you have a small box, then take
her. If not, glue it out of cardboard. Then you need to put the box on the prepared felt sheet, which you cut along the edges, so that you can then connect these corners and glue them. Cut the upper part of the fabric so that it resembles grass. Decorate the basket with a ribbon bow. You can put colored eggs here if it is an Easter basket. Make a handle from wire, insert it into a strip of felt sewn in advance.
To make the next felt basket, cut out a semicircle for the sides and a circle for the bottom. Now connect the sides of the semicircle and sew them together. Sew the round bottom down. It will turn out to be a kind of bucket.
Now take a satin ribbon, fold in even folds here and collect them on a thread. After that, sew this decor element onto the top of the basket.
Now take the green ribbon and sew it onto the basket. Then take such, but openwork, decorate a wire handle with it. This metal blank must be wrapped with such a tape.
Here's how to make a basket out of a different material.
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How to make a leather basket with your own hands?
This can be made not only from felt, but also from leather. Take a thin artificial one. If you wish, it will be a basket for Easter. But you can make it just like that to acquire such a wonderful thing.
Take:
- felt or thin skin;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- threads;
- glue.
Cut out an oval of 10 by 16 cm from cardboard. You will also need a blank from this material for a 2 by 20 cm handle. Sharpen this part at both ends. Then, for the uprights of the walls, you need to cut 14 strips of cardboard measuring 1 by 8 cm. You will also need longer strips for the transverse rows. Now cut the exact same pieces out of felt or leather. Remember to add seam allowances.
Connect the strips in pairs and sew in a circle with contrasting threads. To keep them in shape, place cardboard rectangles between them. Now glue these pieces to the bottom of the basket. Then you need to glue the same 2 parts to the bottom of felt or leather from one side and the other. Sew in a circle on a typewriter.
To sew a pen, place a strip of fabric or leather over a piece of cardboard. Place the same on top. Type around the edge.
Now lift the strips sewn to the bottom and start braiding them long. Attach the second staggered to this one. Sew the handle to the basket.
To decorate this piece, cut the grass out of green felt. Glue it inside the basket.
You can also decorate with flowers and insects made from fabric. If this is an Easter basket, then put your felt eggs here. To do this, you can sheathe wooden blanks of this shape with material. But these are not all examples of how to make a basket with your own hands. The most unusual materials can be useful for such a product.
How to make a basket of cocktail straws?
This is a great material for needlework. After all, it does not absorb water, it is durable and beautiful. Such straws remain after the holidays. You can use them for needlework.
First, you will need to take each straw and fold it so that these blanks are not round, but flat.
Take the first straw, fold it in half. Attach the next one at a 90 degree angle. Now position the third in the same way and bring its ends back. The weaving process is well shown in the photograph.
You can also make a straw basket. Check out a very simple trick that will help you quickly make this eco-friendly thing.
For this, you can use not straw, but ordinary hay, which is even easier to prepare. To do this, you will need to dry the tall mowed grass, and then use it. Before starting work, slightly dampen the hay from the spray bottle to make it easier for yourself. Take a not very thick bunch of this material. Tie it in half with twine or bast. Do not remove the auxiliary material, continue to twist your workpiece, at the same time attach the turns with a bast or twine.
So weave on. When you get the bottom of the desired diameter, proceed to the walls. To do this, place the subsequent turns higher and higher.
When the basket is at the correct height, finish this work and secure the tip of the hay bunch. Then proceed to the pen. To do this, bend the bundle in half and use a hook to remove it in the middle from the top of the last row of the basket. Twist this bundle, fix it. Create the second handle in the same way.
Here's how to make a hay basket. You can also braid it from straw. This is an equally fun process. You need to get this material. To do this, cut off the stems of rye, barley, or other grains. Then place them in the sun. Here the stems will not only dry out, but also acquire a beautiful golden hue. Now you can weave the basket.
First, see how to make it bottom. To do this, take four long straws, thread a copper wire into each one to make the structure more rigid. Tie up the center with thread the same color as the straw. Now take a long straw and start braiding this crosspiece.
Use a straw that is as long as possible so that you can build up other straws as little as possible. To connect two such blanks, sharpen the tip of the first and thread it into the second straw.
When you braid the entire crosspiece, glue the tip and start making a decorative element called "catfish", so that the result is a kind of lace braid.
Roll this decorative piece with a rolling pin, it will become shinier and flatter.
Now attach the catfish along the edge of the resulting bottom by sewing it here. You will get such a decorative element.
Now you can fix the sidewall straws and weave the basket. By the way, it can even be created from a plastic bottle. See how to do it.
How to make a basket from a plastic bottle?
First, cut off the excess from this container. This will be the bottom and the neck. Cut the central part in the middle, then chop into strips of equal length. Each will need to be bent in half, then unfolded and pulled up to that center fold. Do this with all the blanks.
Then you will need to insert the first blank into the second and thus connect the subsequent ones to get the first openwork row.
Now make a corner and start weaving the other side of the bottom. In the same way, in total, make four sides connected to each other. After that, you need to make a smaller square in order to then connect it to the previous one. Make a few more rectangles, which you will then hold together by sewing them here with the fishing line. You will get the bottom.
Now make the sidewalls in the same way. Attach them with a fishing line as well as a handle. Weave it and fix it here. You will have a wonderful basket of plastic bottles.
Now you know a lot of tricks that will help you create such amazing things. If something remains unclear, then we suggest referring to the video, from which you will learn how to make a basket with your own hands from felt.
This one will be trimmed with fabric flowers.
The second video tutorial will show you how to make an Easter basket with your own hands.
And if it's not entirely clear to you how to weave a basket from plastic bottles, then watch the third plot.
