STORAGE BASKET
Practise the visible mending techniques from the previous pages and transform your panels into a handy basket to store your scraps!
YOU WILL NEED
■ Outer fabric: one (1) fat quarter
■ Lining fabric: one (1) fat quarter
■ Base fabric: one (1) fat eighth
■ Medium weight interfacing:
16in square
■ Batting: 20in square
■ Binding: 26 ½ in x 2in
■ Yellow scraps: four (4) approx
2in squares
■ Fusible web: 4in square
■ Mixed weight threads
FINISHED SIZE
■ 6 ½ in x 6 ½ in x 4¾in
NOTES
■ Seam allowances are ¼in, unless
otherwise stated
■ Press seams open throughout,
unless otherwise instructed.
■ RST = right sides together.
■ WOF = width of fabric.
CUTTING OUT 1
From the outer fabric cut: ■ Four (4) 3 ½ in x 7in. ■ Four (4) 2in x 7in.
2
From the base fabric cut: ■ One (1) 7in square.
3
From the lining fabric cut: ■ One (1) 16in square.
4
From the interfacing cut: ■ One (1) 16in square.
5
From the batting cut: ■ Four (4) 6in x 8in. ■ One (1) 8in square.
PREPARING THE PANELS 6
Sew together a 3½in x 7in rectangle
and a 2in x 7in rectangle along the long edge. Repeat this process so that you have a total of four side panels.
7
Find the mid point of the seam line on each panel, and, using a seam ripper, make a 1¼in long gap in the seam. This is where the sun will go.
8
Place each joined panel right side
up onto a 6in x 8in piece of batting, so that the smaller rectangle is at the bottom. Quilt the bottom rectangle, practicing the technique for mending 'a large tear with mixed stitching’. Paula quilted seven lines ¼ in apart with a matching 50wt thread, then filled the gaps between with a rainbow of 12wt threads (Figs A– B).
9
Add a sun to each panel, following
the instructions for the ‘Torn Seam
Sunbeam’, using 1 ¼ in diameter circles (Figs C– D). Trim each panel back to 5in x 7in, cutting away excess batting.
10
To make the base, place the
7in square right side up on the remaining batting piece. Quilt lines approx ½in apart or choose your own design. Trim to measure 7in square, cutting away excess batting.
CONSTRUCTING THE OUTER BASKET 11
Mark ¼ in from the two bottom
corners of one side panel. Place it right sides together with the base, and pin or clip in place, as shown in Fig E. Sew between the two marks, backstitching at each end. Repeat with the remaining side panels on each edge of the base.
12
Bring two adjacent sides RST,
folding the base out of the way. Pin or clip together (Fig F). Sew along the side, starting at the top edge and sewing toward the base. Stop ¼in from the bottom of the panels and backstitch to secure in place.
13
Repeat the process in step 12 to join
all four sides of the outer basket. Make sure you always stop ¼ in from the bottom of the panels. Take care to keep other sections of the basket away from each seam as you sew.
CONSTRUCTING THE LINING 14
Fuse the medium weight interfacing onto the back of the lining piece and then cut away a 4½in square from each of the four corners (Fig G).
15
For each corner, bring the cut edges
RST and clip in place. Sew together, starting at the top edge and back stitching at the corner edge (Fig H).
SEWING THE BASKET TOGETHER 16
Turn the outer basket right side out.
Place the lining down inside, so the wrong sides are together. Pin or clip around the top, making sure to match up the corners (Fig I). Baste around the top edge, using a 1/ in seam allowance.
17
Sew the two short ends of the binding fabric together, forming a loop. Press the seam open. Press the strip in half lengthways, wrong sides together.
18
Pin the loop around the basket,
aligning the raw edges at the top. Sew in place using a ¼ in seam allowance. Press the binding away from the basket then fold to the inside edge. Secure with pins or clips, then stitch in place by hand or machine to finish.