Rectangle Storage Basket Crochet Pattern - What To Do With Variegated Yarn

Hello everyone, welcome to the data in the stitch program. Just now we made a big beautiful

basket

pattern

and since making that project we have been inundated with requests to make

basket

s of all different shapes and sizes so actually making two baskets today we are going to make a rectangular basket in two different sizes with external handles. This is a rectangular basket. This type of basket is ideal for storing them in difficult places. You can put them on shelves, of course, but they're really great for sliding under beds or furniture with low legs, you have space under that furniture that you could totally use for

storage

, but maybe you're not using it as best as you could, so What these little baskets will help you store all your little things. together and slid into one place and thanks to the basket's external handles, you can just grab it and take it all out.

This is the longer and larger version of our small basket. It's also made with three strands of

yarn

tied together like our beautiful big one. basket but it doesn't take up as much thread as that one. I made this one using three different

variegated

yarn

s tied together because I love that wild color combination, it almost has a licorice effect and this one was a ton of fun to make and pretty to look at as I worked on it, this is the smallest basket, it's made in shades of yellow and ended up having this sort of vintage '70s Golden Harvest vibe.

I love the same things. So the basket handles are made separately and attached later and this one is great for storing in slightly smaller spaces like a shelf or maybe a child's bedroom. You can stick almost anything on these. You saw me placing my shirts in one of them. before is a great thing for any small thing you want to roll, fold and stick somewhere soft and safe, so let's grab our hooks, get a good grip on our yarn, head over to the craft table and we'll sew some rectangular baskets together, visit our shop and purchase a

pattern

that will help support our show and we will put a link to our store in the description box below to make our rectangular baskets, we will hold three strands of yarn together in the At the same time today I am using medium size acrylic yarn 4 and if you are making the large basket you will need about 200 grams or 430 yards per strand, if you are making the smaller basket you will want 150 grams or 325 yards per thread so it is a really thread consuming project.

You need a pair of scissors, a thread needle and the main hook we used today is a 10 millimeter size, also known as N or size 15, not P. I don't know why it's there and we're going to need a smaller hook more go ahead, so I'm using a 4.0 millimeter or 4.25 millimeter hook; they both end up with the name G or size 6, but you can use anything in this range, so for 4.25 four point five five millimeters something like that small because it's just a little corner job that we're going to do if you're not already subscribed to our channel, make sure you hit that button and valve so you never miss Another episode and once you've got this all together, we can get started.

We will keep the three strands of yarn together throughout the entire process, so you will treat the three strands together as one, so try not to split the yarn. You want to try to use it all together as you go, we're going to start with a slip knot, so remember you're trying all three strands together, have a big, thick piece of thread if you're making the larger basket you're going to string together 26 if you are making the smallest basket you are going to chain 19 once you have 26 or 19 chains depending on the size of the basket you are going to make we are all going to do the same We skip the first chain on the hook and remember you are looking at three strands that make up one big piece of yarn, so try not to be fooled and make sure you look at those three strands together, so skip the first chain off the hook.

Find the second chain and make a single

crochet

in it. You are going to make a single

crochet

in each chain until the end, so for the large basket you will have 25 stitches at the end of row one, for the small basket you will have 18 at the end of row one you will have 25 or 18 stitches depending on whether you're doing the big one or the small one at the end of each row we're going to chain one and turn our work and now we're all going to work rows 2 to 24 so another 23 rows on top of this just work a single crochet in each stitch a along the entire chain, 1 round at the end of each row and a single crochet to the end of each row.

We will still have 25 or 18 stitches depending on whether you are doing the large basket or the small basket, but we will all have a total of 24 rows total before continuing once you have 24 rows and can see. the sets of two, so it's two, it's two, it's two, it's two, you can count them. We should all have 24 rows, whether we are making a large or small basket, you don't have to chain one at the end of the 24th row. You just have to cut the thread and keep the thread needle off guard and take a moment to Weave the tails at both ends back and forth through some of those stitches.

Now we have a nice even quite stiff piece of fabric that is 24 rows high, so whether you're making the big basket or the small one, we're going to do exactly the same thing, we're going to work the sides, the middle side of our piece. of fabric, we are going to do exactly the same in both. sides so here we go. I have marked the area with stitch markers. You can use stitch markers if you want a piece of thread. You don't even have to use them if you're good at counting. All you're going to do is count six rows from the bottom, mark the edge of that sixth row from the bottom, and mark the sixth row down from the top.

Next, we still keep the three strands of yarn together, we're going to make a slip knot and then we're going to tie it right there, in that space where the first stitch marker is, so along the edge of the sixth row from down, stick the hook right there, let's join it with a slip stitch chain and into that. In the same place where you joined the single crochet, we're going to work a single crochet on the edge of each of those twelve rows, so that was the first one and I'll show you

what

each two looks like. the row will have a large space, each row in between will be a small space, so the next one is either a fairly large space or a small space, depending on which side you are working on, basically you alternate big, small, large, small or small , big, small, big, on the next. one is small and you're just crocheting single crochet right over the edge, there's a big one, the next one is a little bit small so you have to find it and you're going to do this until you get to the other one. stitch marker or the edge of the sixth row down from the edge so you can continue counting.

If you don't have stitch markers, you should have six stitches total including the one you started all the way so that your twelfth stitch will be just above the sixth row down depending on which side you're on, so it doesn't matter, it will work out pretty well. . What you want is twelve stitches which is about six rows on each side, so that's row one which is the most difficult. finished part, we are going to make a chain and turn at the end of each row and four rows from two to six, you are only going to make a single crochet in each stitch along the entire chain, one turn, one single crochet along of the entire chain, one turn. so on until you have six rows total outside the edge of the main piece of fabric, so six rows including the one we created along the edge as a base and then you're going to do exactly the same thing.

Same thing on the other side, each of your rows will be twelve stitches long, count them, there is the first row we made along the edge of the main piece of fabric, one, two, three, four, five, six, you don't have to chain one at the end. from row six, just bind off, take your yarn needle and weave those tails back and forth, this is

what

it should look like and then you're going to do the exact same thing on the other side so they're facing each other once you've finished. We have done both sides, you should have something that looks like this, this is our main

rectangle

and these are the two little flaps on either side, once this is done we can set it aside now we want to make a couple of handles, this is what This is what it will look like when they are all finished, more or less, the long tail, we are still working with the three threads together and we are going to start with no, but we want to do it a few centimeters from the edge so that We have a little thread left to sew one end of our handle to our basket so I have a length of this probably five or six inches that's more than enough and we're all going to chain 11 once you have eleven chains we're all going to skip the first chain off the hook , we look for the second one and now we are going to use the half double crochet stitch, so we make the yarn over, we pick up a loop in that second chain of the hook and You should have three loops on your hook.

Remember that those three strands of yarn should be treated as one large loop. Pull back through everything and that's a half double crochet. You are going to make a half double crochet in each of those chains. the way back and you will have ten half double crochet stitches at the end of the room when you get to the end and you have ten half double crochet stitches, give yourself a good long length in all three strands, cut and bind off. then you're going to take the yarn needle and we're going to pull the really long tail long threads back through some of the stitches to the opposite end so that we have a tail on the other end and what might be easy to do is, First, thread all those tails onto the yarn needle and then you can pick up every two little horizontal stitches that run down the back and keep doing it all the way, pulling the yarn as you go.

Do three stitches at a time when you're done and you've pulled the long tails out the other end. You can just tug a little and pull it to make it a little tight, but no. you know you don't want it to look like that, you want it to be a small, flat handle and you want to go ahead and make two. Now we want to put together our little basket, so what are we going to do? Basically, what you want to do is fold these four flaps and create a little empty box shape. This is where your little hook will come into play and you will only need one strand of yarn to be able to grab whatever yarn you want.

It can be any color you like. It can be one. You have a lot of thread left over for the one you want. We're going to start with a slip knot. We're going to treat the four corners in exactly the same way. So what are you going to fold? Take your basket and fold two flaps. together, line them up so they are even and remember that each one should be six rows long, so you want to have six rows in both so they are fairly even, take your hook. to insert it evenly across the first edge of the first two rows that line up, you will join the yarn with a slip stitch and it may seem a little strange to go back to using a single yarn and a smaller hook and it may also seem a bit strange. bit funny, but okay, we're going to chain one and in the same place where we joined our thread, so through both sides we're going to single crochet twice and you can make it pretty tight, no, don't pull it. the thread, but you also don't want it to be too loose because what we're doing is making a small seam and we want it to be quite firm because we want those spines to support most of the weight.

After loading the sides of our basket, you are going to jump to the next space, the next small edge of the next two rows together and you are going to single crochet twice in the same place so that each small space has two. A single crochet worked into it, make sure you go around both sides because that's how we join the steam or the spine of that little corner. Move to the next one, make sure you pass completely. Oops, a double crochet. in the same place and you're going to continue to the edge and what you're going to have is this nice little line of single crochets running along the inside of that edge, the last two single crochets that you have.

We're actually going to work on the top edge of the chains, so you're going to slide the hook under the chain stitch of both edges so that now you're at the top of those two rows and you're. I'll still try to keep those low points on the side to get the hook through. Remember to place both sides under those base chain stitches and that's it, those are the last two stitches so you should have something that looks like this going up the edge. your sewing you can cast off and like everything else take your yarn needle and weave that tail back through those stitches back and forth, make sure it doesn't want to come off once you've weaved that tail back in, this is what It should look like if you were to sit it back down on your work surface, you have three more corners to do, but that corner is sewn, it's been sewn, and now you're going to do the exact same thing with the other three.

Corners of this one, this one and this one. Make sure that on all four corners the seam is the same on the outside because we're going to turn everything over when we're done, once you've done everything. four corners you should have something like this and now we're going to turn it over, like this which starts by placing your thumb in a bottom corner and pushing it into theopposite direction and then you can grab those seams and sort. Push them in from the inside and pinch them and that will help give your basket some shape. There we go and then you can work around the inside bottom finding the seams or what looks like the bottom corner type edges and just pushing them out while gently pulling up on the sides.

This is how we'll give our basket a little shape and before you know it, you'll have a nice little rectangular basket. What we need to do now is add the handles to the baskets. We are going to sew each of our basket handles onto the short sides of our baskets, whether you are making a long one or a short one, you want to sew the handles of your baskets so that Basically, we are placed one row below the top edge of the basket on both short edges and all you need to do is decide where you like it on the side, make it as evenly as possible and then thread all three. tails and just sew it on like you would anything else, it doesn't have to be neat and tidy, most of these stitches won't really show, you can pin it if you want, you find that helps and then everything.

What I'm going to do is lift the top of the basket stitch and go over the edge of the handle, on the smooth side. I'm going to stitch in place twice, so twice in the same place. thick yarn you're using here, so don't be too Yankee with your needle because you don't want to break it and then I think you probably only need to anchor this twice, so twice in the same place. twice along the short edges of the basket handles, we came here, let's go, and once it's on and feels pretty sturdy, you can tie a little knot bringing the thread to the inside of the basket, just tie a small knot it helps to do this on your work surface so I just made a little loop and I'm just running my thread back through it, pull that knot tight, there we go and then you can just weave the tails. back and forth across some of those stitches along the inside of the basket, pin it on the other side, do the exact same thing for the second handle and voila, once you've sewn the handles on you can give it a little.

Rather than tighten, maybe reshape it into that cute E basket shape if you felt like it got a little messed up while you were sewing, but after that, you're done and your basket is ready to go, so there you have a couple of rectangular baskets. ideal for

storage

, especially in those low, shallow and awkward places, and two different sizes to choose from so you can vary the size you want depending on the space you need to place it and of course you can also use the leftover thread if They are very inclined. I hope you had fun making them with us today and be sure to share these photos of your finished baskets on social media.

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