Fabric Wrapped Clothesline Baskets



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Begin by cutting your fabric into 3/4 -inch strips. Alternatively, if you have jelly roll strips, cut them in half. These strips will be a little wider.

Cut the clothesline end at an angle, glob it with the glue stick. Start wrapping the fabric strips around the cotton clothesline cord. Be aware of right and wrong sides to your fabric and what side you want to be showing. It's alright to overlap the wrappings, because you don't want any white clothesline to show.
Use a glue stick to secure it to the fabric. Wrap it as tightly as you can, using the glue stick as needed to secure it. Keep whirling until you have a good amount to begin the coil.

Use your sewing machine's presser foot to hold the end while you continue to wrap the cord. Secure it with a pin when you need to let go.

Start the coil. This may be the most difficult part of the whole project. When you have a few layers coiled, stitch an X across the bottom to secure it. This is a very IMPORTANT step. Don't skip it. Continue coiling the wrapped cord, hold them tightly together and zig-zag the new round to the last round. Go SLOWLY. To curve the bottom of the bowl, work from the inside and tip it slightly. It gets easier as you go along. Wrap the cord, coil it, then stitch. Repeat until you're finished.

  Janet Urciuoli


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