Basket made from a yoghurt jar

Giving things a second life has become very fashionable these days. After all, why throw something into the trash that could become a useful thing. A yoghurt jar can also make a great souvenir if you make a basket out of it using fabric. You can store useful little things in such a basket, and it will become a worthy decoration for your souvenir shelf. Or you can place a small and useful item and give the basket to a loved one. Then present will gain additional value because your soul will be invested in it.
Materials for making the basket:

• - Oval yogurt jar;
  
• - Fabric for finishing;
  
• - A piece of lace or ribbon for decoration;
  
• - Wire for the handle;
  
• - Glue (you can use any glue, but hot glue is more convenient to work with and the work will go faster);
  
• - Scissors;
  
• - Ruler;
  
• - Simple pencil;
  
• - Medical white adhesive tape (you can use masking tape);
  
• - Waste cardboard – a small piece.
  

Making the basket:
1. Cut the wire to the required length. It is better that it is at least 24 cm.

2. Carefully, so as not to damage the plastic, use scissors to make indentations in the rim of the jar in order to insert the handle there.

3. Place the wire in these recesses and secure it to the sides of the can with adhesive tape or masking tape. To make sure the handle stays on, you can drop a drop of glue into the gap between the wall and the adhesive plaster.


4. Wrap the handle of the basket with a ribbon or thin strip of fabric that you plan to use to trim the basket. Secure the edges of the fabric strip with glue.

5. Trace the bottom of the jar on a piece of cardboard and cut it out. Cut the same oval, only with an edging of +1 – 1.5 cm, from fabric.

6. Make ray cuts along the edge of the fabric. These rays need to be glued one after another to the cardboard.

7. Then, stretching the fabric to avoid unevenness, glue the remaining rays. This will be the bottom of the basket.


8. Place a piece of fabric of the required size (such that it covers the inner walls of the jar and is attached to the rim of the jar) at the bottom of the jar, distribute the folds. Apply glue to the bottom of the prepared basket bottom, insert the bottom into the basket and press it to the bottom of the jar.

9. Drape the fabric and secure it with glue to the rim of the jar, trim off the excess along the edges. The interior of the basket is ready!

10. Exterior finishing is done in almost the same way. The fabric should be of such a size that it covers the walls of the jar.

11. Form folds from the fabric, secure the top of the jar under the rim with glue, trim off the excess fabric along the edges.

12. Secure the lace (or ribbon) with glue around the rim of the jar.

13. Cut three thin strips of fabric and weave them into a braid. Attach the braid in a circle to the rim of the jar on top of the lace so that it hides the seam between the inner and outer fabric trim.




The beautiful basket is ready!