Crocheting a basket is quite simple. Even a child can handle this. But if you knit from ordinary threads, the basket will turn out to be too soft and will not hold its shape. You'll have to starch it and then dry it. You can avoid unnecessary hassle if you use ribbons cut from plastic bags instead of yarn. There are quite a few used packaging bags in every home. Here we will put them into action.
Soft plastic bags of any color, including transparent ones, will do. These can be T-shirt bags with handles, or regular lunch bags. The polyethylene basket holds its shape perfectly and, if necessary, is easy to clean.
First we need to prepare the material from which we will knit the basket. We take a plastic bag, fold it and cut off the strips one by one. approximately one centimeter wide. Each strip will be closed into a ring. We take two rings, insert one into the other, as shown in the photo: the right one will be slipped under the left one. Fold the ring on the right in half and pull its lower part into the upper one. Carefully tighten the knot. Do not pull the tape too tightly, otherwise the polyethylene may tear.It is important to ensure that the knot is exactly in the middle.
We connect all the rings in the same way. To make it easier to knit in the future, we wind the resulting “thread” into a ball.
For knitting it is better to use a thick crochet hook. Size No. 7 will fit. Knitting It won't take more than an hour.
First you need to weave a chain of eight air loops, then connect its edges together. To move to the second row, you need to cast on two air loops, and then knit twenty-three double crochets.
In the next row we will add one chain stitch after each double crochet. The knitting should be flat because it will be the bottom of the basket.
Then we knit in the same way, alternating a double crochet and a chain stitch, but without adding. Knitting should “grow” from the bottom up. You need to knit three rows. This grid pattern will allow you to make the basket openwork. To make the basket more stable, you can put a circle cut out of cardboard on the bottom.
For the handle we knit a braid of sixteen air loops, which, for strength, we tie with regular stitches.
A basket knitted from plastic bags can be an excellent basis for an Easter composition. You can put, for example, colored eggs and sweets in it. Or decorate with flowers.
It can also be used as packaging for a sweet gift. A candy bowl knitted with your own hands will be an excellent gift for March 8th: original and inexpensive.
