Baskets. My other half says I’m obsessed with them. I’ll totally admit that. They hide store so many sins and when you have them all looking uniform with pretty labels, what’s not to love?! My latest project is re-organizing one of our junky closets (a post on that is coming soon!) and I found these baskets that I wanted to re-use for the space:
Some of the liners were so old they were coming apart at the seams and no manner of washing these (previously) white liners was going to make them white again. So I decided to find the quickest (laziest) way for me to make basket liners. I went on Pinterest and while there were many ways to do this, they all involved measuring and cutting quite a few pieces and then stitching them all together. I was impatient and experimented. I took one of the old liners and cut them at the seams to end up with this makeshift pattern:
I took my new fabric, traced out the pattern but left a bit of a seam allowance (I eyeballed it but it probably was about a quarter of an inch) and then cut the fabric. I then matched up the sides (wrong sides together) that were going to be stitched (for example, side A to side B in the picture above) to make sure the sides matched up. If they didn’t, I trimmed them up until they did. I repeated this step for all four sides.
I hemmed the tops of all four sides that are going to overlap the basket and then stitched each of the four sides together (I top stitched all the seams for a clean look and for extra reinforcement) Here’s what it looks like (inside out!):
I popped the finished liner in the basket and ta-da! A fresh new basket liner!
I had 6 (!) to make so once I had the process down, I treated it like an assembly line: I cut out all of the pieces first, trimmed them all if needed, hemmed them all and then stitched. Try it out and let me know what you think!
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