Making a Fabric Bread Basket
A few months ago I received an email from one of my blog readers asking if I could help them. They wanted a bread basket, a very specific bread basket, and had searched high and low without any luck, so then asked me if I could possibly make them the bread basket they were after. What she was describing sounded a lot like a giant version of my little fabric dishes I made last year, so we came up with a deal. She would source the exact fabric she was after during her Honeymoon to France in the summer, and I would get to work making a prototype.
Home-made bread and soup for lunch
It was nice to be sewing again after what seems like such a long break, and I made this bread basket in no time at all, using the same method as I used to make my fabric dishes. I added some loops to tie a fabric covering to the top of the bread basket to help keep the bread/croissants warm, and used an old shirt of my dad’s for the lining. I am very attached to this shirt and quite sentimental about it, I have so many good memories of my dad wearing it, so I almost ripped it out of his hands when he offered it to me as a source of fabric due to an irremovable paint stain on one of the sleeves.
cutting corners
I like our new bread basket, and even though I didn’t even know we needed one, now that we have one we use it all the time!
I really think my next project ought to be making a new cover for my ironing board, it is in an appalling state! I do apologise.
Oh hooray a post! We have a rather more traditional ‘basket’ type breadbasket. But like you I can’t now imagine what we did without it. Looking forward to reading more!
It was your comment encouraging me back that gave me the motivation I needed to write another post, so thank you!
How funny, I’ve just picked up a pattern (from a book in the library) about how to make one of these – the only difference is they attached ribbons at the edge of each hexagon and then tie the corners together. Looks great! Nice to see you posting again
oooh that sounds interesting!
I made one over the weekend and will post about it later on today when I’ve got a spare moment. I meant octagon though, not hexagon. Doh!
Love the breadbasket – I’ve seen them in France but hadn’t thought to make one myself. Yours is an improvement on some of the floral ones I’ve seen
Thanks Myrtle
Just luckily stumbled on your blog, it is fantastic! Thank you for sharing!