I have been having so much fun playing with Valentine’s Day ideas. I don’t know why – I didn’t do nearly this much Christmas-themed crafting. I’m not even romantic. I guess there’s just something sort of whimsical about Valentine’s Day. (Speaking of which, if you feel the same way, I invite you to sign up for the Valentine Exchange! Click the button on the sidebar for more info!)
Today, I want to show you a heart-shaped basket I wove on a cardboard frame with some yarn. I love how it turned out!
This one is definitely manageable for older kids, and it’s all supplies you probably have on-hand as well, which makes it a win in my book. I say older kids, because it did take me a full hour, which is a very long craft for short attention spans.
My inspiration came from a tutorial I saw over the summer, but it was back in my pre-pinterest days, and I didn’t bookmark it, and can’t find it anywhere now. But I remember it was a lot like a raffia-woven basket I learned to make as a kid. (If someone sees this how-to and recognizes it, let me know, because I always like to give proper credit to the creative mamas who inspire me!!) Anyway – some of this is from a quarter-century-old memory, and some of this is from that tutorial, and I think some of it I must have totally made up (forgive me if there’s a “proper” method I’m ignoring, LOL) but I hit on a design that not only works, but I think turned out pretty cute, as well. Let me show you!
Time: 1 hour
Supplies:
- sturdy cardboard for your frame
- scissors to trim
- a hole punch
- yarn (I used a small skein and had tons leftover)
- felt to line the inside and cover the underside
- glue for your felt
- tape to tidy up your pattern
- a needle big enough to thread your yarn through to finish off the top
I had a tough time with the dimensions and shape of my cardboard frame (this is attempt #3), so I will post my pattern here for you. It’s low-tech, all I did was just pop it on the scanner, but if you save the image and print it on a regular-sized piece of paper, that should be really close to my dimensions. Just don’t attempt the pattern on actual paper – use some heavy-duty cardboard. The weaving will secure it together, but it will NOT strengthen it. So if you feel like what you’re using is flimsy, that’s the same strength it will have when it’s a finished basket.
So, cut out your pattern, and hole-punch each of the little slats close to the end. Be sure to keep the edges of the slats intact.
When you trim it up, make sure there’s a gap big enough to slide your yarn into between each of the slats. If you need to trim any down, they don’t have to be 100% exactly the same size, just similar.
Bend your slats upward and tape your extra slats onto the holes in the pattern. Because this is a heart-shape, you have to cut them out separately. If you modify this idea to be a square or a circle, you won’t have that trouble. Just a note, though – you’ll need an odd number of slats. It will make better sense why when you begin weaving, but the odd number will ensure that you weave covering both sides of the slats (you may or may not have noticed that the two halves of my heart don’t have the same number of slats, there’s one extra.) I’ll point it out what the odd number does when we get there.
I glued my felt on now to the inside and underside of my basket. It’s up to you, though. I will mention this – I don’t feel like I was really careful enough with the shape I added to the bottom side, and the edges of my cardboard showed a little (take a look near the point). So when you do it, be sure you cut your piece as closely as possible to your pattern so that it reaches all the way to the edges.
Now, pick a point to start. I started at the heart’s point. Start your yarn, weaving in front of and the behind the slats as you go. I just worked right off the skein. I still have no clue how much yarn I used.
When you get back to the point, the fact that you traveled around an odd number of slats means you’ll now be weaving on the opposite side of each slat as you did the first round. You don’t have to weave tightly, but do make sure that your yarn is pushed firmly down toward the bottom as you go – if it gaps at all, you’ll be able to see cardboard on your finished piece. Especially if you are upcycling scrap cardboard (which may be printed!) you want to make sure that doesn’t show through.
If you’re having trouble pushing it down well, your slats may not have a large enough gap trimmed between them. There should be enough room for the yarn to slide between.
Now, just keep on going around. And around and around and around. You should find once you get three or four rows in, that your slats are now standing up on their own.
It takes a lot longer to weave than I thought, but maybe I’m just impatient. Put on some good music or have some good conversation, and you’ll be done before you know it. It’s very easy, just repetitive.
When you get as high as you can weave (ideally, at least halfway up the holes), stop. I stopped at my point just to make it easy to keep my place.
At this point you will need to cut your yarn, but you’ll need enough as a continuous piece to finish the top. So I paused where I stopped weaving, and pulled off an additional three-or-four arm-lengths from the skein. You need to be able to work with it, but it’s better to have too much than not enough. Sorry I’m not more specific – I guess I’d say, maybe like 8 feet?? Ish??
Thread your needle (yarn your needle?)
Now, this step is very hard for me to explain, so I hope you are visual. Stretch your yarn off to the left (if you wove clockwise – to the right if you wove counterclockwise). Make a stitch through the hole from the front, and snug it up. I’m sure if I were a crocheter, there’s a name for this, but I don’t know what it would be called, since this is about all I do with yarn. :P
You want it to look like this, sort of a knot, so that your weaving doesn’t unravel. It’s the only knot we’ll make until the end.
Now, skip the next slat and move onto the second one, and stitch through the hole from front to back.
Keep doing this, looping it through every other hole.
And just like your weaving, because there are an odd number of slats, you’ll be hitting the missed holes when you make your second pass:
I didn’t count how many times I went around, probably six? I made it somewhat loose and fluffy. You’ll keep filling the holes in until you can’t see the cardboard anymore, or until the top looks as fluffy as you like, or until you run out of yarn. :) If you do run out of yarn, you can tie your piece off and thread up another, just take care to keep your knots hidden.
When that happens, make a knot in an inconspicuous place:
I tightened it up after this, but since you couldn’t see it, I didn’t bother to take a photo. :)
That’s it!
Now, just add some treats, if you like (oh, don’t mind if I do…)!
And it’s ready for your Valentine!
I link up to these great parties!
~ Adrianne
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Hi how can I get the pattern? Please
That was really amazing!! love it. Will give it a trial thanks for sharing
Hello!
Could you please explain what you do with the beginning and the end of the wool in your heartshaped basket.
Yours sincerely,
Erna, Sweden
Hi Erna! For the bignning, I just cut the end off. The weaving held it tight enough that it didn’t unravel. For the top you can really knot it off anywhere, the knot will be hidden in the yarn.
Hello!
Could you please explain to me what you do with the beginning and the end of the wool in your heartshaped basket.
Yours sincerely,
Erna, Sweden
I made one of these this past weekend and it turned out great! being that I have fibromyalgia I went onto one of my Silhouette cuttable files pages on FB & asked the ladies if they could create a cuttable file from it & they did. So if you want m,e to send it to you in order to make it easier for you also then email me so I can send it to you. Thanks again for sharing such a great little project! Its going to assist me in cleaning up some of my scraps of yarn.
Hi Desiree!
Can you please send the FB cut out that was created for you to make the heart shaped basket.
Thank you so much ?
I would love the pattern.
i love the basket but how do i get the pattern? Thanks for sharing
Hi Jan, if you’re on a PC, you can right click on the image, and then choose either print or save. I’m not sure how to print if you’re on a Mac. :P
Shoot, so that’s that one susspoep.
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It so beautyfull, i have to try it right away ;)
super cute project, Adrianne! :D
Adorable! Great idea!
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This is so cute! I'll have to see if I have any red or pink yarn. I'd love for you to share this at my very first link party.
Rachel
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Haha…I hear you. I am not romantic…but there is something whimsical about Valentine's Day. Of course having a little girl that *LOVES* holidays and anything crafty helps. Although she's just 6, this craft is right up her alley. I will pin and see if we get around to making this. It would make a cute teacher gift!
This is so adorable! You are so sweet to share your template! I definitely would like to try making one too!
AWESOME – that's all I can say. I am SO impressed you made that template. I stand in awe of your spatial skills. So pinning this :)
Such a clever and great looking idea! I've featured it today at the Craftastic link party. Stop by ^ grab a Featured On button. Can't wait to see what you link up next:)
Fantastic! This would work for lots of shapes too. Thank you for sharing such a clever idea.
wow this is incredible!! so so fun!!!!
This is awesome! I love how you made this yarn basket. Going to give it a pin. :)
I'd love for you to link up and share: http://tutusandteaparties.blogspot.com/2012/01/pinteresting-party-number-twenty-three.html
This bowl is so smart! I live it. I can think of so many holidays this would work for. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love this!! I would love it if you would share it at our sharing party at http://craftymomsshare.blogspot.com/2012/01/sharing-saturday-3.html. Thank you!
Oh wow, so cute, and it looks like a took a lot of work! I love Valentines crafts as well! Thanks for showing off buddy!
Carlee
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A for ADORABLE!!! I'd love to invite you to link up with us for Fun Stuff Fridays. http://www.toysinthedryer.com/2012/01/fun-stuff-fridays-7.html
Very impressed. Good luck from Bacon Time.
This is cute and I hope you will link it up to my Show it Off Thursdays party at:
http://ornamentplace.com/?p=1400
Thanks, Linda
So cute!! I think my older kiddos could give this a try. Thanks so much for link up with us this week.
How cute! Nice idea for tween/teens. Glad to have you at Things I've Done Thursday!
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This is fantastic! Great job!
Love this! (and the truffles)
That turned out so sweet!
This is adorable! I found you through Polkadots on Parade. Thanks for sharing! :)
Love! Thanks for sharing! I'm not a heart person but I can't wait to make some other shapes. I'm your newest follower from These Peas Taste Funny
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This is so, so, so nice! I love it!
How cute! What a fantastic idea! I'd love for you to share with my readers if you get the chance – thanks for sharing! http://www.momontimeout.com/2012/01/taking-timeout-thursday-no-13.html
This was so sweet:)
Please come share this at:
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Wow–this looks so cute, and you make the process seem so easy!
I am so glad you linked this up to the catch a glimpse party! I am your newest follower and cant wait to browse your blog and see all the other great crafty projects you have…I feel a trip to Hobby Lobby coming on to get supplies for all these great projects!
Mmmm,…Lindor, lol. This is really cute. How in the world did you come up with that pattern (too complex for my pea brain).
This is so cool looking! LOVE it!
WOW! That was amazing! So cute!
I found you from the Take it From Me welcome wednesday list. I just started a mommy blog!! You can check it out if you'd like.
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YES PLEASE!
(grabs a truffle)
Adorable project- gonna have to Pin this myself! (thank Heavens for Pinterest… I {heart} them)
Smiles, Suzanne