How to Make a Coil Crochet Basket for Beginners

Hey guys, she's waiting here from One Thought Wolf and in today's video we're going to

make

spiral and

crochet

basket

s and they use a cord in the middle, so they're not going to knit the whole body, right? We'll be squished for about a second or so for the core, we'll use pipe filler cord, these are the things that used to be on the end of couches or interview pillows, they form that kind of round edge and come in different widths also, you can use them any time you get your hands on and then we're going to flatten everything out, it's going to be done in continuous rounds of spiral

basket

s and here's the inside, the bottom, okay, and you can do You can do it in any color you want , you can also

make

it in any size you want, so it's actually a round basket, but you can see that it's soft and drinkable and you can almost carry it around like that, so it's great for storing project yarn. like whatever you have around the house okay sorry hey everyone so we're going to make a basket and it just has a few different supplies.

The first thing you will need is a

crochet

hook. I chose a 4 millimeter crochet hook. to use with my thread, this is Lion Brand 24/7, it's a cotton thread, it's a little bit mercerized and it doesn't have a lot of stretch, which makes it really great for these kinds of purposes, baskets and bags, and then this one is 3/ 8 inch cotton tube or filling, this is what you see bordering your sofas and your pillows, you usually wrap it with fabric, but in reality we will use it simple and this will be the structure of your basket and then by Of course you are going to need a stitch marker because we will be working in the round.

I just want to put this aside and the first thing we're going to do is start with a magic circle. Leave some glue, you need enough glue to tie a knot at the end and we're going to use the glue to wrap the end of the filling because you can see this is going to fray very quickly. so I'm going to give myself a nice long tail and then I'm going to work on a magic circle now, so here's my magic circle that I'm going to chain, so this is my magic circle right here and I'm going to work. eight single crochets in the magic circle now I chose eight because I want the bottom of my basket to be flat.

Many hats and other stuffed animals can start with six points on a magic circle and tend to curve as you increase in multiples of six. but for a basket I'm going to keep it at eight and then I find that if I make it bigger it starts to wrinkle so here I have eight stitches one two three four five six seven eight and then I'm going to take my starting thread and I'm going to tighten it tight and I'm not going to join the round. I'm going to hold it like this. I'm not going to join your first round, so let me show you. how we're going to add the cotton filling, okay, so you have the active thread on your left, put the cotton filling on top, give yourself about two inches of space because it's going to fray nicely and then you're going to wrap the threads around it and you're going to do a flat point here.

I guess it's more of a chain stitch, but either way you'll keep it in place with that loop. Okay, let me show you that again, so here you go. With your hook in the last stitch of the first round, you're going to put the cotton filling on top of the yarn and then you're going to knit the yarn over, you're going to pull and pinch and that's going to set the cotton filling in place and now we're going to do a chain stitch and this will give us some room to work, so now we are ready to work on the last point of the first round, which will be the first point of the second round. you're going to insert the hook into the last stitch, sorry, the first stitch of the first round and sometimes this is a little tight.

Okay, now you are going to put the hook under the filling and the active thread is on top and then you are going to pass the yarn over the filling, let's not call it filling, let's call it the edging that you have to pass, you pass through the point where you entered and then instead of completing the single crochet, you'll do it right there. We're going to pull that thread to the outside of the binding and then you're going to complete the single crochet because you want the stitches along the outside edge, you don't want it too close to the center. is the center and then this is the outside edge and then for the second round we are going to do two stitches, we are going to increase, so we had eight and we are going to do sixteen stitches in this round, so we are going to knit a second stitch in the same point we worked on before.

Again, throw the thread around the binding and then lift it up. Leave enough room so you can complete the single crochet along the outside edge of the binding and that's how you start and block the binding so this part you can let it fray. You can also tape it down if you don't want it to fray and then when we're done, we're going to take the starting thread and we're going to be able to close it at the bottom of our basket. Well, there's the beginning, so I'm going to continue making two single crochets in each stitch and notice that I'm going to let the binding stay here.

I'm not going to hold it. I'm not going to try to spin it with me. I'll just let it sit and then let my crochet dictate how much binding I use if I pull it, it tends to squish out, it tends to do weird funky things, you really just want to let it go where it wants to go so pull the yarn over up and don't complete, don't try to complete the single crochet too close to the center. I want to pull it up and give it enough room so you can finish the single crochet along the outside edge, okay, and then one more, now we should have done it, see if we look at our stitches, this was our first slip stitch and then we had a chain. and then we did one two three four five six seven eight and I almost missed the point eight points and now we're going to work all the way around and I'm going to show you how to join the loops so we can continue one

coil

okay so we'll continue working and it's two points on each point in the first round.

Now as we go forward, you'll start to see the ending start to get in the way, so you want to. to make sure we hold it tight and then we have one more point here that we're going to work on and then this one with the end. I don't want it on top of the active thread, so I want to tuck it down and out. By the way, I'm going to complete the last point of the round. I should have used a dot marker from the beginning, but I also know where we started. If you don't know, you can count backwards 16 stitches. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 so 16 is actually where it is it looks a little crooked six things here okay let me make sure I cut it right one two oh I missed a stitch somewhere I didn't I doubled Come back here, okay, so let's double this one and then we work on the last one, okay and now we're going to roll it up.

You can see that the pipe just wants to keep going around and that's why you want the points on the outside edge. because you're going to work on these stitches for the next round, so what we're going to do is find the first stitch of the round that I'm going to insert, insert the hook into that stitch and we're going to move on, so now this is the first point of the second round and this time I'm going to open a point marker and put it right on that first point, so now I know that's the first point. and again, I'm not trying to keep the pipe down as I go.

I don't want to force it because that will end up tightening the circle. I want the circle to form naturally, so for the third round we're going to do one and then we're going to increase in the next stitch and you can see that these stitches widen a lot along the outside elastic and that's fine, and then the next stitch will be a single and then an increase and then You can see I'm not touching the binding at all, I'm just letting it go where it wants to go, the crocheter will pick it up the way it wants to be picked up, and then let me stop there for a moment.

You can see it's starting to come in towards the edge towards the middle. Everyone saw that you can just fold the stitches towards the outside edge and that will make it a little easier to work with. You see there is a hole. that has formed in the center, that's okay too because you're going to take the initial thread and you're going to tighten it and that's why you want a really strong thread because I'm putting a lot of force on it and that closes. the circle that's why we want to start with a magic circle because we can squeeze the center closed and then when you're done, you're going to take this, you want to tape the end of the pipe and then you're I'm just going to clip it and then Use the starter thread to sew over and over to keep it in place.

You can probably glue it too. I find that if I tape it down and just wrap it over and over again. tends to hold it in place pretty well, and this is the right side, it's actually going to be the outside of your basket and this is going to be the inside of your basket, so we're going to continue and you To continue working the rounds like this on the outside, you're going to create a

coil

until you reach the desired size of your base, the base of your basket, so if you want a small basket, you might want to stop here and then flip it over and then we're going to work our way up, if you want something larger, you'll keep doing many more rounds until you get the size of the base you want, okay, so now we come in here that we have created.

I have created the base of my basket. I have chosen it to be approximately nine inches and this will be the base of my basket. What you are looking at now is the part that will touch the table if you turn it over. it's the inside of your basket so let's orient ourselves here so we look at it this way the wall is going to go up this way this is the outside okay, I started the first stitch of my next round and I labeled it with a stitch marker so you can See, this is where I made the increases.

You know, it makes a really fun pattern here, but if you're familiar with crochet, you'll know that once you start making the walls of a basket, you won't be anymore. We are going to increase, so we are not going to move, we are not going to increase more or work two single crochets in the same point, so we are always going to work single crochets in every way. and we're not going to because we're not going to increase the size anymore, we're not going to let this hang naturally like I said before, so what we're really going to do is to pull it a little bit, so you're going to pull it , make it a little bit tighter and then you're going to tuck it under the previous row because what you really want to do is start building them up to create the wall so we're going to do a single crochet, I mean at this point you can even stop count if you want, you're just going to do single crochets, no more increases, but you're going to keep pulling it. a little bit and then put it in by pulling and folding well, pulling and folding now because it is a coil basket it will look a little crooked but in the end everything stabilizes, so it becomes a little uncomfortable. pull and tuck and then you're going to work that low point and sometimes when you let go it comes back up okay so you can watch as I pull.

I'm using, I'm just tightening the trim because I don't want to increase the amount of piping that I use. I don't want it to be flat anymore. I wanted to sit up here and I find that this is the only round where you're going to do a little bit of pulling and you don't want to like bend it too much either, you just want to give it a little tug, make sure you keep it on. I guess you're changing direction, this is the background and then I'm going to create a wall, so here I've reached a point where I had two low points.

I'm going to ignore that. I'm going to go ahead and single crochet all the way around and then I'll talk. Tuck it down a little. I think actually putting it in is more important than pulling and I'm not sure if you can see it yet, but it's already starting to curve a little, which is what you want. and I'm not going to change how hard I crochet, the crochet stitch itself is the same and I still want to pull the yarn up and I want to make sure it's worked on the outside edge, just a little tug and tuck it in . below the previous round, okay, just a little tug, this is going to be the only round where you're going to do this tug of war because you want to change the amount of I never know what to call it piping, this is piping filling you want to change the amount of pipe filler used so you can see.

I'm going to take a short break here. You can see it's starting to curl because I've used less so if I know this is the outside of my basket if I turn it up so this is if you want to make a bowl and this is the right inside but that's not what I want, I want this to be the outside, so I want to turn it to the other side, okay and you can see this. It's the inside of my basket and you can see that it's starting to rise and form a bowl shape, so this is kind of the edge of the corner, and you can see that because I tightened the pipe a little bit more, it's now on top. , it's using the same amount of pipe instead of moving it flat and using an increasing amount of pipe, so I'm going to continue finishing this round and then I'll show you how to continue working on the wall, so if this is confusing to you, fold it.

You can keep it folded like this, it makes it a little bit easier until you're done with the round, so we're getting to the edge of the end of this round, there's no binding again, we're working this like a coil, so it works like a spiral, but I wanted to show you that we have started to build this on the walls of the basket and it's time to stop pulling, okay, like thisWe're going to get to the last points and I'm going to stop. here so you can see he's starting to curve a little bit, so let's turn him over, just stretch him out.

I'm going to turn it over so that now it looks like this, okay, so you can see the walls building, it looks like a very flat plate with a very, very small edge, okay, now what we're going to do is continue working single crochets all the time, but you can put this down now, you don't have to keep pulling it. I'll show you well, so now we're going to work single crochets as usual, from now on it will be single crochets without increases, but since we already have this edge, I'm not going to keep pulling any more because I don't need it any tighter than what it already is here, if I pull it further in, then the bowl is going to look like I'm sorry, the walls of the basket are going to rotate, so if I want the walls of my basket to say straight, then I want to relax and then just work single crochets without touching the filling again, it's okay, so let it go.

I mean, you might want to pull on it very, very gently from time to time just to make sure that it's firm and doesn't start to curl outward. because you don't want the sides of the basket to stick out unless you want it to, basically how you manipulate the tubing is how you're going to shape your basket, you can keep it straight, you can arch it outwards or you can tighten it. in, I want to keep it straight, so I'll move around for the most part, let the pipe go where it wants to go, but occasionally to make sure it's sitting on top instead of sitting on top of the filling from the previous row and then all , so I'm going to do a very gentle tug to make sure it looks good, check the walls, bend it a little bit and make sure everything looks good, so I'll come back after I've done that.

I made the walls a little and I show you how to change the colors. Well, as you can see, I have made the walls of my basket. These are approximately 6 inches tall. This is all low point. Here this is the inside of my basket. This is the outside. and right now I'm going to show you how to change colors if you decide to change the colors in your basket. I'm going to change from this gold thread to white. I'm using the same yarn just a different color so the texture of the basket is consistent so let me show you how we're going to do this now let's say I want to finish the yellow right here you can finish anywhere it's pretty arbitrary you can do the walls as high as you want but let's say I want to finish right at this point so I'm going to take my thread I'm going to cut it I don't have to leave a tail I'm just going to cut and then I'm going to tie this yellow end to my white end now I don't have much what to work with here, but all I have to do is if I know I'm going to cut here, then I just have to back up a little bit and drop a couple. stitches and now I have a lot of yarn to work with, I can cut and then tie and then I will work all the stitches as if it were one piece of yarn and then wherever it changes color it will change color so let me.

Do it right now, so this is the way I chose to do it. I'm going to find an arbitrary point on my yellow thread. I'm going to cut it nice and then I'm going to take my white thread and this. It is an invisible knot, this is one of my favorite knots to use. You hold both ends, so I'm holding it with my thumb and my middle finger and I'm going to wrap it around my thumb, but not my middle finger, once, twice and then this. Maybe I'll just wrap it around the ends, not around my thumb, and then it'll just sort of tuck in.

I don't know if you can see it right there, you're going to tuck the ends under your thumb and then you're just going to pull and you come up with this tiny little knot. It's a knot that some people don't like knots, but that's completely up to you, so now I have basically just one strand of yarn, so I'm going to take my basket and then I'm going to knit stitch after stitch until I get to the change. of color I'm not going to touch the filling I don't care oh there's the knot everything's fine and it just happened that my The knot is on the back or on the inside of the basket so it won't even show now if it shows and you don't want it to show, you can always loosen it, you can always remove a couple of stitches, loosen those stitches or tighten the stitches. so that the knot ends at the back, but you can see that I changed the color and you can't even tell how I did it and there are no ends to weave in, so it's a very easy way to do this, the color change. a basket because you know for me baskets are pretty utilitarian and I don't really care where the color changes.

Well, while I'm here I just did the color change and while I'm here I'll show you how. Working the handles so they are even just means that you are not going to knit the stitches from the previous row, you are going to knit stitches around the piping bead, so let's say I want to do this. It's going to be my handle, okay, you're not going to get it to reach evenly across the basket, you want a little bit, you want more cord than the amount of space, so I'm using 13 stitches around the filling and then I'm going to jump. eight okay so instead of inserting my hook into the next stitch I'm just going to put my hook under the cord and I'm going to make a loop around the cord and that's a single crochet okay so I'm going to continue doing these to make it three.

Very good, I have made 13 single crochets around the cord. You can always even them out if you don't like the way they look and if you want the handles to be bigger, keep single crocheting around the cord. and you are not going to skip 13 points. I made 13 points up here, we're going to skip just under 13 so we can get the handles to stick together nicely, so this is the last point where we insert our hook. the basket so I'm going to skip 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and then I'm going to work on the ninth okay so just with the hook on the wire you're going to insert the ninth and then you pull up a loop you have You hold the cord in place, the trim.

Sorry I use different words and then you complete the single crochet and then from there you continue inserting into the next stitch as if it was the rest of the basket and then you connected the pipe back to the basket itself and now it has a handle so you can make it the handle be as long as you want it's just a matter of this is the space you go to skip the handle you can do that if you want to make this basket with a shoulder length handle then you just have to make this loop really big and then continue working single crochets along the pipe and then once you're ready, attach it back to the basket and then that's your handle, okay, so you can see what I've done.

I'm almost done with my basket. I've made both handles and cut my pipe, my cable pipe here, you can see. it's already starting to fray, it frays very quickly and I'm going to use this thread to secure the ends, so you can see I could probably put two more stitches in before the end, so that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to knit two more and I want to make sure they are tight because I don't want to minimize the fraying now. I don't think I can do one more in the next stitch, so I'm actually going to knit one in the same stitch as before, so it's like an increase and I could do more than one.

I think I want to make even a third point, possibly even a fourth, whatever I feel I need to make to really stop this frame thing. I'm trying to keep it in place. I think I'm good here and then what I'm going to do is cut the thread. I want to leave my crochet hook in its place. I'm going to cut a nice long tail because I don't really know how much yarn I'm going to need, so I cut a nice long tail. I'm going to thread it on an embroidery needle, in fact, let me close it first.

So, I have this hole that I want to put it through and I'm going to finish it off. Now I'm going to thread the needle, thread the thread on a tapestry needle, and then do whatever it takes to get it done. This last part is locked in place so I'm really going to go around and around like I guess it's a whip point, there's really no rhyme or reason to this, I'm really just trying to close this fight, it's one thing if no I don't like this space here, one thing I can do is work at the top and then work directly at the bottom and pull these two points together, so let's try it again, so I made a loop and I'm going to put it together these two points so that it softens the curve, so I put those two points together to soften the curve a little bit, hide the ends even a little bit more and then to really secure them, I'm I'm going to tie a knot that I'm going to insert into one of these from here and then I'm going to tie a nice knot and that secures it in place and then, of course, you can continue weaving this thread as long as you want.

You need to do it along the back until you feel like you're done, which is why I also wanted a nice long strand of tail when I cut it because I wasn't sure how much I was going to need. Okay, I keep gripping the court, okay and then I can go back and forth a few more times if I feel like I need to, but that way I have my control and then I've done everything I can to smooth this out and there it is, so you go Let's do the same thing with the inside and let me turn this over so I left a nice long tail at the beginning and you can see I ended up taping the ends together because I knew if I left it it would completely fall apart so given this tail I can turn it around and around and wrap it around as much as I can.

I can also cut it a little shorter and then use the same type of technique if you want. I can call it a technique of wrapping this inwards and then possibly pushing it towards the center like rolling it up and then using my starter tail to tighten it and secure it in place and that's how you close the ends and then once all your ends are weaved in and Cut all the thread and the baskets are completed. I hope you enjoyed this video. Remember to share your projects with me on social media with the hashtag one dog walk for more projects, patterns and tutorials, subscribe to my newsletter and YouTube channel, thanks for watching. and happy crafting