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“Rescuing” Handmade Baskets

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You’ve heard of “animal rescue”, well I’ve been involved with “handmade basket rescue” (smile)!

I know, silly, but when I am at a charity thrift shop and I see a handmade basket, I seem to need to bring it home!

Recently I picked up this basket at a thrift shop:

Which looks like a larger version of a Sotak Handmade basket pattern I made in the past:

On closer inspection turned out it was the same pattern!

I know the work it takes to make this basket, so how could I just leave one in excellent condition for only a couple dollars in the thrift store unloved?!!??! (Yes these are the justifications I tell myself…) I just had to give it a home 😉

I have this collection of Art Gallery Fabrics scraps that I plan to use to make this quilt my friend D made me – Then Came Jone’s Nova Star:

So I thought my new basket would be the perfect vessel to store those scraps:

Here is another basket in my studio (different pattern) I rescued a couple years ago from a thrift shop which houses a collection of precut flannel squares:

I hope I come across more of these baskets in the future when thrifting, as a crafter who appreciates the work that went into them, they are a special and useful find!

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28 thoughts on ““Rescuing” Handmade Baskets”

  5. I have my entire fabric stash organised into colour-coded fabric baskets. Since I don’t often buy yardage ‘just because’ it works well; fat quarters lend themselves to being ‘basketed’. You found a lovely one!

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  11. I rescued a lovely little tote bag once where the embroiderer hadn’t quite finished the bottom line other “this is …… ” and then nothing else, I think it was supposed to be her name.

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