Time to tidy up!

This pair of baskets are ideal for gathering together all your bits and pieces for a quick tidy up at the end of your crafting session.

These big baskets will hold all your crochet or knitting odds and ends safely until the next time you can grab a few minutes for crafting.

The taller blue basket is ideal for holding your current project; there is plenty of room for balls of yarn, patterns and hooks or needles.

The wide and shallow pink basket would be great for holding all those bits and pieces which spread themselves around your work space.

I like a sturdy basket which won’t fold at the sides when I’m rooting around in it for a stitch marker or pencil to mark my progress. I used T-shirt fabric yarn to solve this problem, it works up quickly too which is very satisfying for a new crocheter.

The sides are worked in back post trebles, if this is a new stitch to you, don’t be put off, working it in big thick yarn makes it easy to see what you are doing and there are loads of great online tutorials to explain this stitch.

Pattern info-

Tall Blue Basket- 16cm high x 26cm diameter
Short Pink Basket- 10cm high x 32cm diameter

Hook size- 10mm (or size to give a close firm fabric- t shirt yarns can vary in thickness)

Recommended yarn-
Hoooked Zpagetti- 1 bobbin (approx.120m) for each basket

Abbreviations
R- round
ch- chain
dc- double crochet ( US- single crochet )
htr-half treble crochet (US- half double crochet )
btr- back post treble crochet (US- back post double crochet)
sk- skip
inc- increase, work 2dc into same stitch
ss- slip stitch