At January's meeting of the East Midlands Quilt Group, the lovely Ange showed us how to make rope bowls using cotton cord. I used white 4mm cotton cord to whip up this baby.
I say whip up, it took me the entire meeting, in between gossiping and stuffing my face with cake. They are brilliant fun to make and the possibilities are endless. I really wish I'd taken photos of some of the other bowls the group made.
The next day, I wanted to make another, so decided to use up the rest of the rope, just keep going until it was all used. I also incorporated some fabric scraps for a dash of colour.
It turned out massive!! I made a right mess of attaching the fabric scraps, but I really like it anyway.
I wanted to use up the rest of the roll so that I wouldn't have oddments of cotton cording hanging around, but now I want to buy more and make more baskets!
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Another interesting thing to have a go at. I like the effect of the fabric scrap - it looks artistic.
They look great and I guess being cotton cord washable too. What are your plans for them?
It's a lovely basket, and the flashes of fabric and colour work really well!
Oh I love those. I've seen them before but not as high and I think yours are much more usable.
I like those. Do you just stitch the cord to itself?
Is great, how do you attach it all together?
Love your baskets, they look great. The one with the srap fabric in it is so pretty.
Greetings,
Sylvia
great baskets practical and pretty too, like the addded scraps of fabric, I presume you used washing line?
This is beautiful! Looks like it would take a long time...so surprised to hear you made at a meeting. Do they have a name, so I could look for directions? They are both lovely!
These look great and look like a lot of fun to make!
That's fantastic, and the print fabrics give it a great kick. I think this is the kind of basket that is zigzagged with the machine to form the shape? You better post a follow-up picture when it's filled with goodies!
these are brilliant, they've been on my to do list for a long time
These are so cool! I love them - especially the one with the fabric scraps :D
Useful and pretty, what more could you want! I shall have to put it on my list of things to do :)
That looks like fun and very useful. I love the flashes of colour in the large one.
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