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Spring Basket With Rolled Fabric

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Spring Basket With Rolled Fabric


This little project happened after I bought four cute baskets from the thrift store for $1.00. I brought them home, not knowing what I was going to do with them other than spray painting each of them in some bright spring time colors. After cleaning and painting them, they definitely looked much better, but they were still a little plain.

 
I liked the various shapes and sizes of these baskets and knew I could do something with each of them. .25 each was a price I couldn’t resist.  It’s rare that I don’t find some little something I can’t resist whenever I venture into my local Goodwill shop. 
 
 
I spray painted the small one a soft pink. I wanted to use this one for spring decor, not specifically Easter decor. 
 
 
I started going through my crafts supplies looking for something to perk it up a bit. I found lots of scrap fabric pieces and decided to use some of that on this small basket. I cut the fabric into strips about three inches wide and long enough to wrap around the basket. 
 
 
I rolled the strip of fabric and starting at the bottom of the basket, I hot glued the end of it and then wrapped it around, hot gluing it again at the other end. 
 
Spring Basket With Rolled Fabric
 
I continued this until I reached the brim of the basket, alternating the colors. 
 
Spring Basket With Rolled Fabric
 
To cover the area where the rolls of fabric were hot glued, I made three fabric flowers using the twist and roll method and hot glued those down the basket.
 
Spring Basket With Rolled Fabric
 
For now, I placed some silk flowers in the basket, but by adding a container inside of the basket for water, I’ll be able to use fresh flowers in it as well.
 
Spring Basket With Rolled Fabric
Not bad for .25 plus a little paint and fabric scraps. 
 
Spring Basket With Rolled Fabric
 

 

 

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Beverly

Beverly shares easy, inexpensive craft tutorials, diy projects for the home, coastal decor projects, & thrift store find makeover projects all designed to help you create a beautiful home on a budget.

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  1. Oooohhhh! I so love this! What a wonderful idea with the rolled fabric and some of your beautiful fabric flowers!! Thank you so much for linking up to Brag About It.

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  6. Your basket is pretty. Sounds fun to make! Thanks for linking up to idea Box. Come back next week and share more!

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  8. This is way to cute and looks so easy to do. Can’t wait to try it out with some of my old baskets. Thanks for linking up at #HomeMattersParty

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  9. This is so pretty, and spring! They definitely look so much better, and looks like it would be easy to do. I think decorating planters like this too would be so cute! Love your flowers too. Thanks for sharing!

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  10. Beautiful! I would love it if you joined and contribute your awesome posts at my link party at City of Creative Dreams, starts on Fridays at 9AM eastern time 😀 Hope to see you there at City of Creative Dreams Link Party.

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  11. These baskets are adorable, Beverly! I love the pretty colors and the fabric flowers. Thanks so much for sharing at Snickerdoodle. 🙂

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  12. totally love these Beverly! what a brilliant idea! I can so see myself covering my basics with some of these scraps I have here! Love the flowers too! I haven’t checked but I hope you linked this to our Creative Challenge link up!! Please 🙂

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    • Thank you so much! So many things could be covered this way. I didn’t link it up with the Creative Craft Challenge because technically it isn’t clothing, but you’re the host and if you say it’s ok, then, I’ll definitely link it up!

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  14. Hey Ladies! – First, love the thrifted baskets. Second, love what you did to the thrifted baskets. What a fab idea to cover them with fabric scraps – and the pretty rosettes put this over the top! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Something To Talk About Link Party!

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    • Thanks so much, Vicki! I love finding baskets at a thrift shop. You can’t beat the prices and you can always change them up with a can of spray paint! Glad you like the fabric roll idea. Happy to share on Something To Talk About.

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  16. Beverly, this is so creative and fun! I saw it featured at Idea Box link party- congrats! 🙂 Hope you’re having a wonderful week! 🙂

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  19. How pretty! I would love to try this with some of my vintage fabric scraps!! Appreciate you linking this up at Snickerdoodle Sunday, will we see your latest makes tomorrow evening? 🙂

    Sarah (Sadie Seasongoods)

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