Flower Basket
This Flower Basket is of a vintage patern with girly frills skirting both the top and the bottom of the basket.
I am pasting the original pattern here but will give you a photographic explaination on how to work ths very pretty and extremely easy pattern…It’s so easy that I finished this in just 4-5 hours.
It’s a great adn unusal pattern to use to give gifts of chocolate, flowers, scented soap bars, little aromatherapy oils and scents etc…….
Materials Needed are:
#10 Aunt Lydia’s thread….it comes in 100 gm balls…but you will need jsut 1/3rd of it.
Hook 1.75mm is what I used ..you can go utp to 2:00mm
plastic wrap
A cardboard roll or any hollow pipe cut to size to hold the shape of the basket
wood glue/quickfix/ a very strong starch spray
pins
To decorate the basket
Ribbons/bows/satin flowers,buttons/stars etc
Pattern
Here there are 2 patterns…I am doing only the first one now. In this post since the pattern has been given in such detail, I am not going to write out each row…rather I have taken pics as I made this and have used them here to help you along.
Method:
Row 1:
3ch…then 23 dcs into a 5chain loop; ss.
Row 2:
3ch, dc in same space; dc; 2 dc in same space;,dc until end then ss.
Row 3:
Same as Row 2
Row 4:
Row 5
Row 6:
Once the required base is acquired….you need to get the basket to build upwards….so cut the thread and begin to hook in the back loop only. The pic below is form the internet and not my own…but it will help illustrate what back loop and front loop is.
Rows 7 to 15:
Row 16:
Now from here on up to the 23rd row the top of the basket widens like a funnel…Follow the stick count carefully…
Row 17 to 23: Pls refer to the pattern above
Top Ruffle
Row 24 to 27: Please check the pattern above…
Bottom Ruffle
Please check the pattern above…
Handle
Please check the pattern above…
Blocking
Use a mixture of Fabric gum and quick fix….and paint it over the basket allowing the mixture to soak into the thread.
Folllow the instructions as above to shape the basket.
Add some pretty bows, buttons and flowers….fix the handle and You have a very pretty basket.