This crochet pattern makes a small crochet basket that can be used as a basket to hold nuts or for party favors – to name only a few uses…
Follow the easy step-by-step instructions of this vintage basket pattern to make this classic crocheted basket. There is absolutely no charge for personal use of this crocheted basket pattern.
Free Crochet Pattern for a Basket:
Crocheting a Small Basket
REQUIRED MATERIALS
CMC Cordonnet, Size 60
1 Steel Hook, No. 12
NOTE(s)
This basket measures about 1 1/2 inches high and 1 1/2 inches in diameter at the bottom, widening out 1/2 inch at the top.
This little basket can be used as nut baskets or even as party favours.
To stiffen basket, dip with sugar water made in the proportion of 1 spoonful of sugar to 2 spoonfuls of water and pull into shape over a form; a glass of anything the desired size will do.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS
Chain 2.
1st Row – Make 6 sc in 1st ch.
2nd Row – Working round and round and using both loops at top of stitch, make 1 sc in 1st sc, * 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next sc. Repeat from * around row.
3rd Row – Make 2 sc in every 3rd stitch.
4th Row – Make 2 sc in every 4th stitch.
Continue this way making 1 sc more between the widenings in each successive row until bottom of basket measures 1 1/4 inches or is size desired.
Next Row – Ch 3, 1 dc in last sc, * ch 1, skip 2 sc, 2 dc in next stitch. Repeat from * around row, join in 3rd ch.
Next Row – Ch 3, 2 dc in 1st space, * ch 1, 3 dc in same space, 1 dc in next space, 3 dc in next space. Repeat from * ending with 1 dc in last space, join.
Next Row – Ch 3, * make a group of (3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc) in middle of next group, 1 dc on 1 dc. Repeat from * around row, join.
Make another row like this or as many as desired to make the basket the size you wish.
Finish by making 5 sc with 4 picots between in each group and 1 sc in each dc between groups.
To make a picot ch 4, make 1 sc in lst chain.
In the last row of the bottom of basket, between the 2 sc that were skipped, make 3 dc all around row.
This free vintage crochet basket pattern was originally published by Corticelli in 1916, in Lessons in Crochet – Book No. 1.
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