Curbly Video Podcast: How to Sew Basket Liners...Without a Pattern!
By DIY Maven
If you ask me, a basket without a basket liner looks kinda naked. But sewing them can be a bit tricky, especially when you factor in those four tricky corners on the bottom. I decided there had to be an easier, fool proof way to make them. So, after some experimentation, I came up with a method that involves a little math but no pattern and–better yet–no corner sewing!
What you’ll need:
- a sewing tape measure
- a ruler
- a pencil
- fabric (you’ll see how to calculate the size in the video)
- 1/4" elastic (you’ll see how to calculate its length in the video, as well)
- a small to medium sized safety pin
- straight pins
- an iron and ironing board
- a sewing machine, thread, scissors, etc.
- and, of course, a basket
What you’ll do:
Watch the video below!
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Beckientim--I'm glad it finally worked for you. Measuring up the sides from the point instead of from the point up will make your bottom wider, based upon the properties of an isosceles triangle and that whole Pythagorean theorem deal.
beckientim
Ok maybe I am not as smart as everyone trying this tutorial but I finally got it right on my 4th liner. The way the video looks to me is that when it says "then using a ruler we measure up from the point just to where the ruler measures 6 inches which is the width of our basket." What I was doing was measuring 6 inches from the point to the middle of the triangle. What you need to do is measure up the sides of triangle 6 inches and make a mark, and then the other side measure up 6 inches and then make a mark and connect your points. Does that make sense? Then it is a perfect tutorial. I really loved it though I just wish she would have shown exactly how she measured that confusing part. THANKS!
BethanyBlah
Thanks for the tutorial, Maven! Simple and lovely.
Once I can afford to have the sweet old machine I got for $10 in it's Midcentury table, I will have to give this a go! Just a bit too hard to envision doing entirely by hand.
*glances longingly at old Singer cabinet*
dewonangus
Thanks ... great tutorial and so simple!
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