hey everybody its Matthew I'm mr. domestic this video is all about probably one of my most favorite projects that I've ever made and it is this woven basket made out of fabric look at like this is so cool I've never seen anything like this in my life other than the one that I made lush but I cannot wait to share this tutorial with you so before we get into the content anytime you're enjoying this make sure to give this video the thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to my channel now let's get ready to have some fun together vo I'm gonna show you one the strips that you need into how to prepare the strip's per your woven fabric basket and this is like in a traditional Easter basket with a handle but just take this and run with it whatever size you want so you're gonna need nine of the mean base fabric they're gonna be with the fabric strips two inches and then you need two more for the handle that could or could not be the same fabric I'm using the same fabric and then you need some for the sides and Helena wanted a rainbow so I picked six different colors they're also 2 inch width of fabric strips so I have six different colors there so those are the strip's that you need and then you need an interfacing I've done this two ways where I've used like a deck or weight and that one was great and I will link to that in the bottom and then this one I'm using a peltex 71 F and for this I cut it into three-quarter inch strips and so if you're not familiar with using this kind of little thicker than traditional interfacing so you might want to cut those with the fabric strips wider than two inches maybe two and a quarter so you can flip them and follow this so essentially you're going to have the texture side up and then put wrong side facing down of the fabric and just iron on top of it you want it to be about a quarter of an inch from the edge of the interfacing because you're gonna fold that over and press it over eventually so you want that to be shown and then you just press it all the way to the end and you just iron it I earn it and this does not have to be precise if you've seen any of my videos you know I'm not all about precision but you definitely want to have enough on the overhang not the long overhang but the short everything you want enough to wear you'll definitely be able to fold it over and I am glue basted which we'll see later on but then you just press it and I was totally the logistics of video taping sometimes this wackadoo dodd mess I you know so you just press it high heat high esteem all the way across make sure that it's a fixed if not you're gonna do some more pressing so it's no big deal here get all the way to the end so that was fun watching the iron and see the lip that's the lip that I was talking about I'm gonna fold that over and glue basting is probably the best thing to do either use a so long glue pen or use a micro tip on some Elmer's glue and just have that and go down and that's how you're gonna fold it you're essentially gonna double fold it over to where you're not gonna have a raw edge on either and then you're in here I fold it over the other side about a quarter of an inch and then you're gonna fold that over and get it ready to stay okay now it's time to get our wheel oh I prepared all of my strips are still with the fabric and I have my web D needle right here it's the one-inch version then some scissors I'm gonna show you how I cut them and then these are easy grasp pins they have a purple head from dreads they're super rad and then some aleene's fabric fusion or whatever kind of father who you have and now we're ready to go yay and you only need four now you need nine of the main fabric with the fabric strips two of them you're gonna put aside so that you don't accidentally trim them and help and then the other six the colors you don't need them at all right now so just put them aside okay so yeah definitely put those two aside you don't want to accidentally cut them because you know how to make some more but it's really not a big deal and then as you can see underneath the strip's I've drawn a grid it's 10 inches vertical 10 inches horizontal and then these strips essentially I'm gonna cut them exactly in half not perfectly exactly and happen as close to exact as you can without having to actually measure and you're gonna end up with 18 paths with a fabric straps and for some reason I don't cut them all before I start weaving so now I'm gonna go ahead and start laying down the horizontal strips and you're gonna just lay one right after the other on a horizontal line and they should be as precise as you can get them and try to have the center of that strip be on the center of the vertical line and I fold them in half just to give it a pretty good idea of where that center line is and I'll lay that one close to that horizontal line it doesn't have to be exactly on the horizontal line since these are thicker strips than like normal fabric weaving you want to leave some space in between each of the strips maybe two or three millimeters so the other one can weave in and out of there easier because it's impossible to have them exactly but it up against each other with the six thickness of strip see how I did this one about two or three millimeters if you go more or less no big deal because it'll adjust once you're doing the vertical and so I'm gonna do all 10 of these horizontal ones I'll fast forward and then I'll skip to the vertical so now we are ready to weave in the vertical and just grab one strip weave it into the weft II hey you just stick it into the bottom slot if you've never a but know a few before and then you just start going over under over under over under over under all the way through and then once you've gone through you're gonna line it up with that vertical line that you drew and you can see it underneath like in the GOP's and try to get this as vertical as possible and it needs to be centered just like you centered the horizontal ones and on this board it just happened to be the length of the board so I knew that it was Center and then you're gonna get your fabric glue and every single intersection you're going to put some fabric glue there and then let that dry and so you're gonna do this with every single vertical strip I just want to make sure whenever I'm making a basket that the base is SuperDuper sturdy and it doesn't move around and I feel like the additional glue gives it a little bit more substance since its fabric with this interfacing you don't necessarily need it but this is just why I do it it's I'm suggesting I'll do it too so I'm not going to show you like gluing and weaving all of the verticals I think you get the gist of it but then the next one on the right and the left you're gonna alternate weaving and I'll fast forward you'll be able to see it as I go okay I'm popping back in here real-time because this is where you weave and long with the fabric strips this is going to make the handles so as you're weaving this make sure that it's centered some of y'all might have been like well I don't understand have enough strips that's what those other with the fabric main fabric strips are for so just weave those n as in you're weaving the smaller strips and make sure that they're centered and do the same thing with their the 4 and the 7 position strips so once you get the middle four then the two on the outside it's a click and I'm going back to passport in see tada and these are the handle strips right here this is where I prefer to put them but you can put them wherever you want to really and now all you need to do because it might vary depending on like how you sewed or what the strips were exactly might be a little off so I'm measuring the perimeter right here and this each side is a roughly nine so in total the perimeter is 36 so for the side strips I'm gonna need to make those 36 in length and then I'm going to sew them together in a loop and I'm just gonna show you how to sew this one when attaching strips into a circle I like to use a zigzag with the four lengths of 0.5 and then I just bring them together and I'll use a walking foot and a denim needle and big bag really short back and forth and I'll go back and forth a couple times and then this is what it looks like once you've done it and now once all six of your side strips are sewn into loops you need to decide the order I'm starting on the bottom with orange and moving up the rainbow to where the pink is on the top but essentially you're just going to weave this continue the weave but you're gonna bring the sides up into the vertical and I don't bother measuring the sides of the bottom five I only measure the sides of the top one because that's the one that I want to make sure a superduper square and the ones underneath I don't even glue they're going to move around on their own as you go up and more vertical essentially so don't worry about that just go opposite it's gonna be like over-under or front back if you're you're looking down and this is really really hard to video this in 3d but it's essentially the same thing so for the most part I'm just gonna speed this up so you're able to watch it but it's a lot easier than it videotapes for you to do and use Clips if you have clips make sure to clip once you get past especially the first one just to keep it in place and keep them down on the and this is super duper fun and you're gonna totally enjoy it and it's gonna blow your mind that you are weaving in 3d yeah so I'm gonna fast forward the rest of the bottom three circles and then we're gonna go to the top one so now the bottom five side strips are woven N and all you have to do is prepare the top one and this is the only one where I feel it's important to measure the sides to make sure that they're all about nine inches for this size then once again I don't want the seam to be on the corner and then I'm using a friction pen just to mark every nine inches about and that's where I'm gonna finger press the corner and I just want to make sure that those corners land exactly on the corners of the basket and then you can adjust the bottom five as you need to but this will allow everything to fall into place essentially and make it a crisper or square and you're not really guessing and then that's all gonna work and then you with this you do the same exact thing that you did with the bottom five and you just continue the weave and you use clips and if you wanted to glue this one you can glue this one down just to push all of the other ones down and then let it dry before you put on the top and so now that I have this square I'm going to start weaving this in and I'll fast-forward through this part so you don't have to watch it it's harder to see this way but essentially you are just continuing with the weave going vertical so it's the same kind of basket weave technique just going vertical so you now all six beside circle strips are woven in and I am going to highly encourage you to glue every intersection here and then clip it and let it dry overnight and whenever I put glue on I'll fold it over and then put a clip and then this is what it looks like see how each one is folded over I didn't lose fold overs that's just keeping it in places all we have left is to prep the top band and to secure the handles and so for the top band you're going to need to make additional cuts you shouldn't have some extra width of fabric 3/4 and interfacing left but you'll need to cut a couple more it can be 2 inches it can be one and a half inches of the fabric with the fabric and this you can put the interfacing in the center it doesn't need to be towards the end and then just press it and so you're gonna do two of these and then you're going to sew them together and they're gonna kind of look like they were sewn on the top the weight that I'm doing it but you're really just gluing it on there so it's kind of like tricky no one's gonna know it's magic with fabric this is what it looks like on the other side right now all you have left to do with this is to fold and press one of the sides over to where it just stays in place if you wanted to glue baste it to make sure it stayed that might be helpful I didn't hear but after doing it I wish that I would have because it would have helped with the sewing and the gluing of it on the top so you just do this with both of them and then you'll bring both of them over to your sewing machine and I'll show you how you connect the two and you do some top stitching so it'll look like it's sewn instead of so now with those two strips if you right side together put them along the folded edge just make sure that those are aligned and then you're gonna sew right on the outside of the interfacing give it a couple millimeter so that it folds over nicely and just sew Oh down that line and since you've already measured the perimeter you know that the top also is going to be 9 by 9 so 36 inches so you could have already cut this to 36 inches like I did and then you'll sew this all the way down and I'll pass for us you're not to see it and now this is what it looks like when you sewn them together and now we're gonna do some top stitching I'm all about using my edge stitch foot so I'm going to switch my feet and then come back to you oMG sigh I totally almost forgot that we needed to connect this into a circle because essentially this is going over the top so just like you connected the 6 side strips you're gonna use a zigzag with the same setting but you're gonna open it so don't fold it over you're gonna open it in exactly the exact like and do that a couple times to make sure that it's secure and then this is what it looks like so now I have my edge stitch foot on and I am going to essentially top stitch or edge stitch each of the outside edges of the interfacing and then where the seam is in the center there are two more edges of interfacing so I'm going to use the edge stitch to top stitch there to sew on the top the flat top of this you're going to see four lines of thread and then when you fold it and you glue it on top it's going to look like you sewed it and no one's gonna know any different so I'll fast forward this so you can see the sewing and boom shake shake shake the root you are almost done but for this part this is what it looks like yeah and you're gonna fold this over on top of it whoo so I popped back into your screen sooner than normal in a video because watching everything Arial for me was getting a little extra and I thought this part of it would be easier to explain the three-dimensional part of it this way so you have this strip which you've sewn essentially this is going to look like you sewed it even though it's just gonna be glued and you're gonna take this and press it with the iron in a bit but the first thing now that all the clips have dried just remove all the clips I'm just doing this in real time so you see there's nothing to be scared of if you let it drive her the instructions there's gonna be something that you're gonna have to lift up no big deal and pop it up like that so you just remove them all like this I'll speed it up a little okay so I lifted them all if there was any excess glue here and now other than these these are the handles that don't trim these you're gonna trim the excess off of the top right here to where it's the length of this right here then this is about three-quarters of an inch so that's what I'm going to trim too and I'm gonna estimate but essentially this right here is gonna fit on top of it and we're gonna cut out little slits from that seem to fit in the handle so that's what I'm doing here it doesn't have to be perfect either because this is gonna be head in this part and you just make sure do not cut this handle into the cutting is fine I'm not gonna do real time so Jorge I'm speaking up so now I cut all of them to where they're roughly about 3/4 other than these long ones and this right here this I'm going to press in place first so I'd know exactly where the corners are and the creases are already done but this is about 36 inches for mine when I measured it so just every 9 inches I'm gonna put a crease similar to what I did for the the top the the purple one right here so I'll just start wherever I don't want this seem to be on the corner I just don't think that won't be SuperDuper secure and I have my steam iron hi hey I see oh I'll get a facial all right okay this one is pressed and this will pretty much secure it what I thought with this kind of interface you guys watched you iron it and let it dry as long as you don't shift it whenever it's drawing it's gonna stay where you want it to so this it's a little bit more than mine there we go justice and I'll speed up the second tear and now I have it and it should be mostly a square if it's not perfect it's totally fine and then you're gonna glue like glue glue glue glue get it in here and you can either choose to glue in here or you can glue these individually I think you really go ahead and glue in here and I'm not being chinchou with it I'm like really going to town with this glue and I'm gonna let this set for well over a day so I'm just gonna do one side at a time and I'm gonna start with one of the non handle sides and then just essentially feed each one of these into there like this one inserting those leftover tabs into the top and then once they're all inserted that I'm gonna clip them in place and then I'll set it and forget it for a day and just for it to be like SuperDuper aesthetic like I I'm gonna try to at the bottom at the bottom right here of the the top I'm going to try to get it to where it butts up almost against that pink one and then no one will know that you didn't sell it so you're gonna clip this one good don't be stingy with Clips because you really want that glue to set because the more it sets the more it's gonna look like you said this this is like faux sorry this is what you want Project Runway and you don't have time so you get out the hot glue gun that's not why you're doing it it's just easier this way and then I'm gonna walk you through inserting one of the other sides where you put in whoa flying Clips where you put in the handle and real time and then I'll speed up the other two okay so this one's good to go right so this one this is where your seam ripper I use this sucker for a lot of things more than ripping seams probably and so this is where this one is right here and then I'm gonna take my seam ripper rip those out and then you can just feed this through there I almost was gonna like go down with my teeth invited don't use your teeth as a tool it's not okay and then as you put those in there slip the other tabs end and then for this one I'm gonna do the glue after and set it before just because I probably would have glue all over my fingers right now if I didn't do it that way and this kind of you don't want this all over your fingers it doesn't come out as easily as washable Elmer's okay this isn't in and I did our daughter talk get in there so see how this it's like you sewed over it and put the handles and if you wanted to machine stitch this part just to make sure that you see the the thread go for it I probably will too and then I'm gonna glue this down and then clip that and I'm gonna fast bar for the rest you don't have to see that in real time but I think that you have the idea of how to do this so now I have it all glued all clipped all around the perimeter of the top and then you're gonna let that set I'm probably to let that set overnight before I even mess with it but there's one more thing that you need to glue and that is the handles so you have these little shot lace right I'm just gonna cut off the excess fabric these should be round about the same length let me just check right here this one's a little bit longer then let me cut off the stragglers at this one and what I'm just doing is I'm bringing it in to the center I'm estimating SMA everything it makes it so much easier there and so what you're gonna do with this you're gonna bring one over here and you're gonna hide it in there and the other ones gonna go there and it's gonna hide like that and the same with this one's gonna go over here and it's gonna hide it like this and then this one's gonna hide there and this one I'm using for an Easter basket so the handles are gonna be shorter if you wanted longer handles and you do more than a width of fabrics check for here just to make sure that it goes you can even cut a new strip and then do it that way so that's what I'm gonna do here I'm gonna bring which one where this one is under something to bring this one under here and I put a little bit of glue in there like that and this isn't even the glue that secures it really right here I'm gonna glue it I'm gluing it I'm gluing it I'm glowing it see like that and that once that sets this is gonna be one mighty secure handle and then you tuck this one and over there and you glue it and then I'm gonna clip those right here so that they don't dry together get a good ol clip in there so it doesn't come out like that see and then I won't do this one in real time and then just one final thing with the handles make sure that they're touching since there's a lot of glue there they would hate to have a space there and then know what hardening they can do no one would be secure but once these handles dry you're gonna be good to go so no you have got yourself a handy dandy woven basket made from fabric that is going to amaze your friends and family and probably even yourself I'm totally stoked and I can't wait to show Helena this so if you enjoyed this video if you got some tips or some tricks or had some fun learn how to do something new then make sure to give me the thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to my channel so keep it positive y'all mister domestic gal thanks for watching my video 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