St. Patrick’s Day is such a fun holiday! I love seeing the many ways that all of you celebrated your day. Some of you have traditions you follow, some of you pinch others who do not wear green, some of you partake of green colored cocktails. 🙂
While Wade and I are still adjusting from the time difference from Hawaii to Minnesota, we were looking forward to spending a nice and relaxing evening with our neighbors for a homemade St. Patrick’s Day dinner.
But we were a little late for dinner.
The nurse from Jack’s school called me around 12:30 yesterday that Jack had hurt his shoulder in gym class. Jack is a senior and is a big and strong young man. My first thought was that he fell and hurt his shoulder playing dodgeball.
(Dodgeball, really? Does anyone even play dodgeball anymore?)
Regardless, I figured that a little ice and rest and he would be as good as new.
Well, not so fast. My Jack is a tough nut, but as soon as I saw his face, my motherly instincts kicked in and I knew that we needed to look a little deeper into his hurt.
Making a four hour drama short, Jack broke his collar bone. He was running an obstacle course in gym and one of the sections instructed the paritciptants to dive through a hoola hoop, landing on a thin mat that was behind the hoop covering the hard wood gym floor. He landed wrong, heard a pop, jumped up and told the teacher that he needed to go to the nurses’s office.
So after visiting two different doctors, we are heading to an orthopedic surgeon this morning.
I had a half completed project I wanted to finish and share, but, yeah, that will wait til Saturday now. 🙂
Originally I was selling JUST the liner of these baskets and my friend Rob was selling the baskets. But now…….
I have both the baskets with a liner for sale in my shop! I have seven baskets left and have decided to have a Belated St. Patrick’s Day Sale for only $35.00 for the basket and liner.
If you are interested you can start shopping here. All orders will ship the next day.
We did end up having a great dinner with our neighbors Jimmy and Nikki. And they sent leftovers home for Jack.
I met Rob about two years ago. He liked a bunch of my pillows from my Etsy shop and when I realized he had a shop with Etsy also and it was located in Minnesota, I started up a conversation with him.
He not only has a shop with Etsy, he has a very successful shop named Rob’s Rustics
Rob and his family live in Minnesota, within twenty minutes of me. The other day I stopped over to buy some bank bags. I’ll tell you about the bank bags at another time. Anywho, as Rob was showing me some of the new items he will be listing in his shop, this metal industrial basket grabbed my attention.
It is a rustic, authentic egg basket with short metal handles and a shiny label. Love at first sight!
I can see this basket beside a fireplace with kindling in it, or beside a sofa holding blankets or even as a magazine rack. So many options.
But what I really wanted to do was put a liner in it so it could be used in an office or laundry room or even a bathroom. Rob graciously let me bring it home to create something.
I knew I wanted to keep a rustic feel for the liner, so I chose a creamy thick cotton canvas fabric. I measured the basket and then drew an exact pattern that would make any architect proud. #notsomuch
But in all honesty, that is how all my handmade patterns look. It makes sense to me. 😉
Moving on. I then cut the cotton canvas fabric from my pattern, adding an inch on each side for seams.
Ready for another great photo? Here is the fabric laid out just like my pattern.
Amazing, right? Maybe I need to think about writing a book and title it, Pattern Making for Dummies 🙂
Next step was to sew it together, making a cloth basket. I sewed all the sides to the bottom and then the sides to form the corners.
I decided to leave the pretty seams on the inside of the basket and finish the outside with my serger to continue with the rustic vibe.
For whatever reason this picture wants to be sides ways, but you get the idea of the finished serged edge.
The last step was to use my seam ripper to make some slits for the rope to be inserted through so the liner stays up inside the basket.
I then simply cut some six inch cotton rope pieces, stuck them through the holes and tied them into a knot.
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