How to Make a Rosy Easter Basket

Use Silk Roses and Plastic Canvas to Make a Beautiful Basket

Mar 5, 2008 Melissa Howard

Make a keepsake Easter basket covered with flowers that can be used for any season of the year.

Easter baskets aren’t just for children. Make this beautiful Easter basket as a container for a gift to give to someone special in your life.

Supplies

• plastic canvas
• plastic canvas circle
• silk roses
• large pearl beads
• felt, fleece, or non-fraying fabric
• scissors
• thread and embroidery floss
• needle
• adhesive

Instructions

1. Count the number of squares around the perimeter of the plastic canvas circle. This number will be the length you will need to cut the canvas for the side of the basket.
2. Decide on the height you want for the basket. Cut a rectangle to fit the length and height your basket requires.
3. Cut a narrow strip of canvas for the handle of your basket.
4. Using the canvas pieces as a template, cut out felt pieces. These will be used to line the basket bottom, handle, and sides.
5. Dismantle the roses by pulling off the stems and the plastic pieces that hold them together, keep the petal circlets and leaf groups. Discard all plastic material. Sew the flowers to the side piece of plastic canvas using beads as the center of the blossoms. Use as many beads as necessary to make an appropriate sized center for the flower.
6. Cut one rose into individual petals. Layer the petals along the top edge of the handle. End with a rose at one of the handle
7. Once the entire outside of the side canvas and handle is covered with blossoms or petals, glue the felt to the back of the canvas. Allow to dry.
8. Using coordinating embroidery floss, sew the side pieces to the bottom piece of canvas. Make sure to catch the felt in your embroidery floss as this will help it to stay attached to the canvas.
9. Sew the two edges of the side piece together. Firmly tack the handle in place
10. Use embroidery floss around the rim of the basket to finish it off and to help attach the felt to the canvas.
11. Now you have a beautiful basket in which to give an Easter gift.

Ideas and Suggestions

• If you do not have enough roses or if you like the contrast, use the leaves as well. Sew them down before sewing down the roses. The roses will cover up the stitches used to hold the leaves down.
• Place the flowers so close together that they appear squashed. When the piece is shaped into a basket, the petals have more room and spread out. If they are spaced too far apart, there will be gaps between the roses.
• This would make a sweet basket for a flower girl.
• This would also make a nice May basket.

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Rosy Easter Basket

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