Basket “Heart” made of threads and toothpicks

Instead of sitting and being bored, you can occupy yourself with something useful that will also bring a lot of pleasure. Let's take some thread and weave it into a heart-shaped basket! The task before us is not difficult; even a child can complete it. Such a basket will be a wonderful decoration for a room, dressing table, or souvenir shelf. You can store jewelry, hairpins, various small items and trinkets in it. And a handmade product will be a delightful gift for any representative of the fair sex, be it a mother, girlfriend, teacher or anyone else.

Materials for making a wicker basket:

• - thick cardboard (preferably corrugated cardboard);
  
• - a sheet of ordinary cardboard;
  
• - a sheet of colored paper;
  
• - toothpicks - 26 pcs.;
  
• - a ball of thread for knitting;
  
• - large needle;
  
• - large beads;
  
• - scissors;
  
• - PVA glue;
  
• - heart template.

Manufacturing process:
1. Trace the heart template on a piece of corrugated cardboard, as well as on sheets of regular cardboard and colored paper. Cut it out. Glue hearts made of regular cardboard and thick cardboard together, then use a needle to make holes at approximately the same distance from each other.Insert toothpicks.
2. We begin to weave a basket. To do this, fix the thread on the first toothpick, tying a knot and lowering it down to the bottom. We weave in this way: We pass the thread behind the toothpick - in front of the toothpick, etc.

During the weaving process, toothpicks may fall over, so you need to hold them with your hands and periodically adjust them.
3. When half of the first row is woven, and we find ourselves at the toothpick opposite the one where we tied the knot, we wrap the thread around this toothpick and continue weaving further.


4. We weave the remaining half of the row, stop at a toothpick with a knot and make a turn.

5. We weave further in the same way. Weaving through each half of the row and ending up on a toothpick with a knot and on the opposite one, you need to wrap the thread around this toothpick.


6. The threads should be intertwined in a checkerboard pattern; we check this with a separate toothpick. If in the first row the thread went behind it, then in the second it should go in front, etc.


7. When there are a few millimeters left until the end of the toothpicks, we complete the weaving. To do this, you need to go to the penultimate toothpick - this is the one before the toothpick with a knot - tie a knot on it and carefully hide it between the rows.
8. Decorate the tops of the toothpicks with beads. To make them stick well, we drip PVA glue into the holes.


9. The seam on the cardboard can be hidden using a satin ribbon or painted over it with paints.

The heart-shaped wicker basket made from toothpicks is ready!