HOW TO - MAKE ROPE BOWLS - with sewing machine - full tutorial

Hi, I'm Crafty Patty and today we're making fun

rope

bowls

. I made this one with quarter-inch

rope

, which I prefer because it's a little stiffer and holds its shape a little longer. I did it with a 7 30 second scope and it's still a beautiful basket, but it's a little flimsier, but it depends on what you like, it's a little thinner looking, it's a little rougher, and of course, it I will do. Leave a link in the description box below where you can find the rope you need to

make

this project. I actually bought this at my local hardware store.

You may be able to find it there. You may be able to find it at Walmart, but if you can't check out the links below and that will help you. I'll show you how to start your bowl on the

sewing

machine

. I'll show you how to finish with a looped edge. I'm also going to show you how to

make

cute little mangoes and that's what we're going to show you in this video today in a future video once you have the mango once you have the mango on how to make a nice flat bottom, then I'll do it.

Show you how to add fabric, it's a little more complicated to hold the fabric and use the rope and sew at the same time, so I suggest we start with this type of basket first and then we'll move on to this and I'll do it. I'll show you this probably a couple of weeks after I post this video, if you find something that says synthetic core, I wouldn't worry about the inside, it looks like this, the synthetic fibers are on the inside and the cotton wraps around it and you can sew it. Okay, so along with the rope you will need some scissors.

You will need four pins. Embroidery thread. If you want to make the embellishments on the outside to hide the last sewn edge, you will need a lot of thread. and I suggest you pre-wrap some bobbins if you have extra bobbins then that would be great and we'll just use one crochet hook, this is just to help hold the edges when you're

sewing

. it just helps bring the strings together. Some people have used what they call a stiletto. I don't have that item and can't find it where I live so crochet will work fine just to give you an idea how.

A lot of rope is needed for this particular basket. I used 40 feet for this one. Okay, Crafty Patty doesn't have one. I mean, I have a great

machine

, but I don't have a state-of-the-art machine where everything is. Bells and whistles, so what I did here is I bought a magazine. I got two of my paint panels. I kept finding things until it was at the same level as my sewing machine because you'll find it when I'm working on your circles and they get bigger and bigger. It's a really good idea to keep it level, so the first thing you should do is untangle the rope cord and then simply roll it into a ball.

I have my The ball is finished here and I'm going to place this on the floor just to the left of my sewing machine and I can take this off my ball to keep the ends from coming apart from the center of the basket. I like to take a piece of duct tape and then wrap it around. I'm not trying to put it on the extreme right now. I'm just wrapping it here and then what I want to do is I just want a little piece of tape. So I'm going to cut this so that there's only about a quarter inch of ribbon left, so I'm going to cut enough to keep the cord in place, but not so much that you can see all of this ribbon in your basket and That will be a good fit for your sewing needle.

You can probably use your regular needle, but in case I put in my jeans needle, you could use a leather needle or a jeans needle, it's that small. a little stronger and it will work perfectly for this type of project. You'll use a zigzag stitch to sew the pieces of rope together as we go to make the basket, so on my Husqvarna machine I'm going to go high. How can I get it, which is five and a half, that's for my width and for my length, I'm going to set it to four, it can go up to six, but I find it's too difficult to sew a long zigzag when you try it. to go around the little gaps at the beginning of your project, okay, so your first step is to take your little end with duct tape and we're going to stick it right in and we're going to wrap it up tight, so once you've got your four, I'm going to take some pins, I'm just going to stick them in the side and bring them up to the middle.

Now I'm not going to sew until my last row. Here I'm going to sew. from the third row down so just this middle part here the only reason I wrapped another part on the outside is so the presser foot will catch it and put it in so it's easier for me take it out and cut the threads, so I have sew it this way and now I'm going to sew between these pins and come back over here. I'm just going to go into my third row here. I'm going to take these pins out because I want to sew backwards. the middle here just to secure that middle and then go to the end and sew again, take out the pins, cut the threads, okay, so this is the part that was not sewn, which is okay, we don't want it to be stuff.

Now the trick is that the wire always comes out on the right side and we're going to wind it clockwise, so the round part will always come out to the left because that's where we want it to come out so we have enough room. where we can fold our bowl to lift it up, we won't be able to do it this way, it has to be like this, so now go back to your zigzag stitch, which was five and a half for me and four now. What I'm going to do is I have a zigzag split on my foot.

Here this is my guide that I'm going to use to be in the middle of this section here, so here because I know it's hard to see it on camera. to match between my lace with the middle of my pressure foot, press the service foot, sorry, I have a bad habit of seeing the pressure foot, so now we are in the middle here, I put my pressure, I pressed your foot down and on this first. part, I tend to do it manually, but what I'm doing is just pulling this manually instead of using my foot on the pedal and then you'll only be able to do it about two times, lift your foot and bring Match the opening of your foot to the place where they join again do a couple more turns and this is the tricky part once you've done it around these first few rows then you'll be on your way now if this the rope is bothering you all you have to do lift up the pressure foot, turn it and it's out of your way.

I'm also going to cut these ends off here so it doesn't get in my way. The pressure foot goes down again. and now we're just going to do these first ones very, very slowly. For now I'm just guiding it with my thumb and using my fingers here to pull it and spin it in a circle once you've done enough. Here you can remove it from your left thumb and just let it slide across your thumb. On this side, your fingers were going to be pushing and pulling on it, so now we should be able to go a little faster.

Again, you're not pulling on the rope, you're going to let it naturally move on its own. I've got my string sliding over my thumb here and I'm holding it with my fingers here and my fingers here and I. I'm pulling on it, I'm not pulling on the rope, it will come in naturally. I also have my finger, my little finger, just guiding it a little bit, but not much now, as you'll see, I'm out of coil. Thread and I didn't realize that I went there without the bobbin thread, it's okay, that's why you want to have another bobbin ready to go and it's okay to just stop and start like that, all you have to do is go back and find out where. you're done just go back a little bit further and then start stitching back again and then we go again and now you decide how big you want the bottom of your basket to be just for example this one here is about five inches or i .

I'm not good at centimeters, about 13 centimeters, so I want this one to be wider, so I'm going to go until it's about maybe I don't know seven or eight. I'm going to see and by the way, my little makeshift table here. it's working great as you can see if you don't have an extension on your sewing machine for the base of your sewing machine this would fall all over the place so now it's coming right on top of my little boards that I put up. here and let my arm rest here so if you need to do this too, do it or you might get lucky and have one of those beautiful sewing machines, but we do what we have to do to get the job done right.

Now you could stop right here and this would be a beautiful eight inch roller coaster and look as you can see because I have my little platform here, it's perfectly flat and that's what you want without the dome. I also promised I would show you how to attach your cord if you ran out, so let's do that now, so let's say you just ran out of cord. I'm going to take a piece of tape again and I'm going to wrap my end with the tape and again I don't want too much of my tape to show so I'm going to cut it so there's only about a quarter inch of the tape left there, so I'm going to cut it again, okay, that's the end, now I'm going to Find my next end that I'm going to join again, take a piece of tape, okay, we've already sewn this one together now, really I'm going to push this up, even then it tends to bump a little bit. and then I'm going to go in with a pin and just pin it to keep it in place.

I'm going to put one more here, so now you're pushing it out a little bit, which is okay because when you go push this in, it's going to go in and it's going to be nice and tight here, so I'm using my crochet hook. or if you have a stylus, use it and now just hold this here and continue. to come pushing it in and once you're on that seam I'm going to go back and then go forward again now you can take out your pins and you've made a beautiful join now I want to start taking my edge out of my Lift up the bowl and I'm going to do a smooth rounding and nice, so let's say I'm going to start.

My rounding will be here, so let's lower the pin here so we don't sew over the pin. It's going to be right there will be my pin, so when I get here I'm going to start lifting the basket, so we're going to turn around right now, we're still flat, okay, so I've already matched my pin. Now I'm going to go in and I'm going to pick it up with my hand and hold it with my thumb here and this will help guide it, so now I'm going to go around three times, so this will be the number beginning of number one, so we go around, like this that I've pulled back my pin, so I know I've gone one turn and once again, it's actually where we join the two pieces of rope together, so you can barely see it, well, I had my hand angled like this and you can see how already It's starting to curve.

Now I'm going to raise my hand so it's almost parallel like this and I'm going to hold it like this and we're going to go around three more times, so here it is. our starting point I'm going to go around three times now I'm going to go up so there's about three inches between the basket and my sewing machine and I'm going to go around twice I've gone around twice and now I'm going to go up so that it's almost flush with my sewing machine and I'm going to round it two more times and now I'm going to have it so that my basket is vertical and I'm going to go until I have the height that I want in my basket, so I have the height that I want now, so I just I'm going to sew it back and I'm going to take it off the machine for now to do it. some measurements for my handles now to make our handle I'm going to measure from where we stopped sewing so from here I'm going to measure six inches and I'm going to put a pin there and now I'm going to measure along the bowl from where we stopped sew up to five inches and we'll place the pin at the five inch mark and that's going to be the size of my handle, so I'm going to work my way along to figure that out. this here is the middle of the other side, I'm just going to put a pin right there in the middle, so on this side we're going to do the same thing, five inches would be two and a half, so there's my two and one. half inch mark right there, so I know I want to stop my cable or should I say start my handle right here on the other side, so I'm going to go inside the basket and I'm just going to put a pin mark right here and I'm going to reach to my five inch mark and I know I want to place the other part of my handle at the 5 inch mark right there, so again I'm going to move this pin down inside the basket so I don't do that.

To sew it, I'll just give myself a guide. I can remove this pin, so when I'm sewing a log, I'm going to sew here and then once I get here, I'm going to measure out six inches of cord and then. bring it down to my five inch mark, so here's our first handle where we take it out and measure six inches, but we put it back at the five inch mark, so we're just going to slide it in and we're going to get to where the pin and this is where we're going to start sewing, so I'm going to bring it down here, so I just need to put the pin in a little bit so I can grab it.

Okay, I just put that on my second wire here, not this one, it's on this one. I'm going to put my presser foot down and take out my pin and this is where you can use a tool if you feel like you need it. and I'm going to hold this on me. I just made three stitches this way. I'm going to backstitch stitch three and go around until we get to the other pin mark, so we're going to go around until we get to the other pin. I only wantshow you. What I'm doing now is holding it because it's a little big and flexible.

Right now I'm holding it here as I sew, so as I go, I'm holding it here now, I'm getting to my first pin mark, so I'm going to go up to here and then sew back up to my pin pressure. or sorry, the needle down from where my pin is and where my needle is, I'm going to measure along here and It's six inches, okay, and that's going to be my other handle. Now I'm going to go back and sew just this one, so I'm going to tilt my basket to go in and sew. just this part here once I have an angle I can go ahead and sew this part right here I'm going to sew up to my pin now I can take my pin out because I don't want to sew over it I can use my tool here to keep it tight and now I want to tilt my basket, like this which now I'm going to sew on both of them, now sew until we get to the first handle, now we're getting close to our handle, I'm just going to push this in and then we're going to pull the handle out, so we're just going to put this together here.

Now I'm going to turn my basket, my basket is almost at the back of my sewing machine now. now we can go around again until we get to the other handle again now we go back to the first handle we've done three rounds on our first handle and we've done three rounds here so it looks like the basket is We're even going to cut this up now and mix it up now . I got too close. I'm going to sew back a little bit here, so I'm going to finish the basket right before the handle starts, so that's where I'm going to cut the end off and then to make it blend in a little better, I'm going to come in here and I'm going to tilt it and cut it so that only half remains in the last part.

Of course, I try to be in front of the camera and cut with my left hand. It is a bit akward. I could take it out of the sewing machine and do this, which would be a lot easier, but I don't want to do it because I'm lazy, but the idea is to just tilt it down so it goes lower and lower so it blends well and I'm going to keep all this nice and smooth here. I'm going to use this to keep it there. I just want to take it out to see what I've done, so I'm going to clean this up a little more, force those threads back into the basket and I'm just going to make a couple more passes to make it nice and clean, but you can see the idea of which is beveled down, so here is our finished basket.

Remember we had a bottom of about eight inches, there's our eight inch bottom and then we raised the sides and now we have about a 12 inch basket or bowl and here's the fun thing with the handles: we sewed them this way, but if you just flip them like this, it creates kind of a fun little handle that way. I love it so this cute little guy I'm here. Wearing my jewelry is actually a mistake, so mistakes can be fun too, so what happened in this case is remember I was talking about not pulling the laces too tight and not having any weight on the laces.

Well, what happens is that it will be so. Don't do it so you see I can't get a really flat bottom on this one because it was domed and that's the reason so what I did with this one was I made it into something nice so I stuck it in the middle pushed the middle down again and now I have this lovely little place to store my jewelry and my rings, so how about that? Sometimes mistakes are funny and here's another basket and I promised the other kind of um, ending with a loop. inwards and making the handle like this, so here we go and this is going to bend inwards, so I'm going to make a little angle in the cement again, so get that in the middle and I'm pushing against this. one, but I'm going to sew this one in place, so I'm really going to get it in there, press it really hard once you've gone a little bit, now we sew back and now we're going to go in. and we're going to sew these two together this one and this one now and now I'm going to go ahead and sew this way and there you have it, look at all these baskets.

I love it so today we show you how to make this great big basket with an 8 inch bottom that measures about 12 inches at the top and we show you how to make the handles and I also showed you how to make the loop handle and depending on how It varies when you are sewing, if you are lifting it up a little bit more and you get different shapes, so if you go up you will get a nice straight side, if you tilt it slowly you will get a nice curved side, so there are many options and many uses and they are great for gifts so keep watching and subscribe because in a couple more weeks I will show you how to use the same rope, but we will wrap it with scraps of fabric and then you will end up with a really colorful beautiful basket, so thanks for watching and See you next time.