New pattern for a quick and fun rope basket project! I absolutely love making these baskets! They work up quickly, it‘s easy enough to customize them and make in any size, style or color you like and they make for great housewarming gifts!

Video tutorial for my rope baskets is available on my YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/FiLVLOxdWsg

You can make anything from the small prototype basket seen here above, that fits perfectly for crochet hooks, pencils or make up brushes in the bathroom for example! Then you can go up to big ones and make cots for your pets or a big ol‘ basket for your yarn stash, like my big basket I use for my cotton yarns.

Yarn and hook

3 mm hook

You need fingering or sports weight cotton yarn (something that suits a 3 mm hook).

Then you also need some kind of braided cord yarn, this is the base rope that we crochet around. I use the braided cords from Bobbiny. This is available both in Premium 5 mm weight, which I use for my small baskets, or in the Jumbo 9 mm weight, which I used for the big basket.

The amount of yarn depends on the size of the basket you make.

For the small prototype basket you need:
3.5 - 4 m of the 5mm braided cord yarn
10 – 12 g of the cotton yarn

Other supplies:

Some kind of stiffener: you can use for example the Stiffy fabric stiffener from Mod Podge, waterbase sealer glue or adhesive lacquer. Or even wood glue watered down.

Rather large brush to apply the stiffener.

Darning needle and good scissors, it‘s good to have both small ones and big sharp ones.

Some sort of a mold or insert to use as base to put inside your basket while stiffening it. For the small prototype basket I took care that the size fits perfectly to use a 0.33 L soda can as mold, something that you can get universally!

Abbreviations (US terms)

ST = stitch
CH = chain stitch
SS = slip stitch
SC = single crochet

Sizes

The written pattern here gives you a small basket, perfect for storing pencils or hooks. It‘s 7 cm in diameter and 10 cm high,

You can make the baskets in ANY SIZE you like. The only limitation is that you need to find an insert that fits the size you want, to use as a stiffening mold. Since everyone can easily access a small soda can, it‘s great to start with a tryout in this prototype size and then take it from there!

At the end of the pattern I have included instructions for how to work the increase for the bottom, up to 10 rounds big (the small one has a 4 round bottom) as well as how you can continue and make them even larger. So no worries, I‘ve got you! You can go as big as you want really!

Rope crochet method

The baskets are worked in the round in a spiral.

The whole piece is worked using single crochet stitches with the cotton yarn. You place the rope above the SCs from the last round and then you work your single crochet stitches simultaneously into the SCs from the last around AND around the rope. This is all explained in detail in the pattern, with step by step photos included.

I also have a video tutorial for this pattern on my YouTube channel for visual aide.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCLETbuS9Y_v1o2BpSjj-oA