Cloth Basket Tray

Use this Cloth Basket Tray for a bread basket, store your magazines or mail or wherever you could use it. It would even work well in the bathroom to store hair accessories.

Sewing Materials Available

Cloth Basket Project

You will need:

2- 14"x19" rectangle cut out of coordinating fabric or 2 rectangles of the same material
2- 14"x 19" rectangles cut out of interfacing
8 - 12" strips of ribbon

Sewing Basket Tray Instructions

Iron interfacing to each rectangle.
Place a ribbon 4 inches from each corner. Pin the ribbon on the right side of the material with the end of the ribbon along the outer edge so it will be sewn into place. See picture.
Place rectangles right sides together and stitch all edges taking out pins and catching the ribbon in the seam while you sew. Leave a 3 inch opening for turning right sides out.
Turn right sides out and iron flat.
Turn opening in 1/4 inch and top stitch all around edges making sure ribbon is out of the way.
Bring corners together and tie ribbon in each corner.