Easy Way To Add Fabric To A Basket Liner

I want to show you an easy way to add fabric to a basket liner. It’s as easy as cutting a large circle. It’s a bonus that you don’t have to be that accurate. I have designed a crochet Easter basket, and then added a hard liner, using a plastic jug. What a way to recycle and keep plastic out of our landfills.

It really is easy to add fabric to a basket liner, no sewing is needed.

Here is the supply list you will need, if you are using the Half Star Crochet Basket. I am also including the info needed to make the hard liner.

You will find the links you need to make the crochet basket and to make the hard liner and sturdy handle at the end of this blog post.

Supplies:
1. Bleach jug or round plastic container that is 5-5.5” inches in diameter and 16”-17” around, and is approximately 5.5”-6” tall or more. You will not use any more than 6” of the container.
2. Utility scissors to cut the plastic container.
3. Fabric Scissors
4. Measuring tape
5. Hot glue gun and glue sticks.
6. 22” x 22” piece of fabric
7. Pen for marking the cutting line.

Now let me walk you through the “How To” steps of adding fabric to the liner without sewing.

1. Place your basket liner in the center of a 20″ x 20″ piece of fabric. Using fabric scissors, cut 6″ to 7″ around the basket. You can measure it and mark your fabric or eyeball it and just cut it out.
2. After cutting out the fabric circle, find the center. Then place over the opening of the liner and shove it down to the inside.
3. With your hand on the inside, begin evenly spreading the fabric around the liner allowing for the fabric to drop to the outside.
4. Continue to distrubute the fabric around the edges until it is evenly spaced.
5. When it is evenly spaced, it will look similar to photo 5. At this point I like to put something round and heavy in the center, to keep the fabric seated. You can use either a paper weight or a large roll of duct tape works really well.

This next step isn’t necessary, but I had a lot of extra drop over fabric.
It was a good length in some spots, but other areas it was too long.

If I hit it or bump it the fabric would shift. Please don’t cut too close as this will make gluing the fabric to the outside of the liner much harder.

Now it is time to put the handle on the liner. This needs to be finished before you glue the fabric to the outside of the basket.

1. This photo shows the handle that has single crochet stitches placed around it, leaving the last 1″- 2″ without single crochet stitches, so that it can be glued to the liner, before we glue the fabric to the outside of the liner.
2. Put the ends of the handle in place, where you would like them to be. Mark the edge of the fabric with a pen or pin, so that you know where to cut away the excess fabric.
3. Cut away a good portion of the fabric, just as pictured, leaving an 1.5″ of the fabric that is dropped over, from the rim.
4. Push that 1.5″ portion of fabric to the inside, and place glue on the end of the handle and press it in place against the liner. Please don’t burn yourself.
Note: You can use a stapler to affix the handle to your basket liner.
5.  When the glue has dried and the handle is seated well, fold that 1.5″ in toward the liner and glue in place. Leave the rest of the drop over fabric in place. The only portion of fabric that goes to the inside of the liner is the portion you cut away.
6. Step six isn’t pictured, but you will need to repeat steps 2-5.

Now the the handles are glued in place, go back through and reposition the fabric.

Making sure the fabric on the inside is flush to the liner. Fuss with the drop over portion of the fabric, to make sure it is evenly spread around the rim.

The next 5 steps will show you how to glue to the fabric to the basket liner.

1. Place two generous lines of glue 4 to 5″ wide just under the rim.
2. Press the fabric in place until the glue is dried. Be careful and don’t burn yourself.
3. Go back to the cut out portion at the handle and fold under the raw edge and glue it in place. Then continue to glue the fabric all the way around the rim of the basket liner.
4. It is time to trim the fabric again. Go through and trim about an inch away from the glue line. This doesn’t have to be super neat, but if you want it to present as very neat, you can always glue grosgrain ribbon over the raw edges.
5. After you trim the fabric you will notice some of the overlapping folded areas of the fabric are not glued down. Stick the tip of your glue gun inside those open areas and give it a shot of glue and hold in place until it stopes popping open.

Now you are finished adding fabric to the basket liner. Look your basket liner over to see if you need to add glue to any loose or open spots.

If you would like to watch me demonstrate all of the above steps in a video tutorial, you can watch it below.

This video will walk you through the steps of cutting out the fabric and gluing in the handle, then gluing the fabric down starting at the 10:30 minute mark. The fabric application ends at the 25:00 minute mark.

If the only thing you are interested in is the fabric application, you will need to fast forward through how to crochet around the plastic strip to make the handle.

You can find the free crochet pattern to make that cute crocheted basket, using the Half Star Crochet Stitch at THIS LINK.

There is a photo tutorial here on this blog that will show you how to use a plastic jug to make the hard basket liner and the plastic strip for the sturdy handle.

Here is a video tutorial on how to crochet the Half Star Stitch Crochet Basket.

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I hope you liked this easy to add fabric to a basket liner tutorial.

If you did find this tutorial a help to you in making future baskets, I would love it if you would come to my crafting and crochet group and join in on the discussions we have there and feel free to post photos of your makes in there as well..

Would like to take a look at the many crochet baskets that I have designed over the years? A few of them have hard liners. If you would like to see them, please CLICK HERE.

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