The Sewing Room

xxvickixx

Shirlgirl:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8752491/Trail/searchtext%3ESTORAGE+BASKET.htm 3 for £20 or Dunelm and Ikea have quite a lot in various sizes quite cheap.
I think it sounds like a lot of work making pockets for ply and how would you wash them? I have some fabric mesh boxes from vertbaudet that are stiffened at the base with a thick fabric panel. They're in DS's room now so can't have a look but they are sturdy and can be washed (not that they have been). Will see how they are made and get back to you.

I don't get the Karen/ RBN thing- am I being super slow today?

shirlgirl2004

xxvickixx wrote: »

Shirlgirl:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8752491/Trail/searchtext%3ESTORAGE+BASKET.htm 3 for £20 or Dunelm and Ikea have quite a lot in various sizes quite cheap.
I think it sounds like a lot of work making pockets for ply and how would you wash them? I have some fabric mesh boxes from vertbaudet that are stiffened at the base with a thick fabric panel. They're in DS's room now so can't have a look but they are sturdy and can be washed (not that they have been). Will see how they are made and get back to you.

I don't get the Karen/ RBN thing- am I being super slow today?

Looked around Chelmsford today and had looked online in Ikea to no avail but Dunelm looks like a possibility. I need 6 though :eek: ££££. Part of me wonders if it would just be cheaper, easier and look better if I just bought a new unit complete with baskets.

I had been thinking something like this

PootleFlump_3

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

Looked around Chelmsford today and had looked online in Ikea to no avail but Dunelm looks like a possibility. I need 6 though :eek: ££££. Part of me wonders if it would just be cheaper, easier and look better if I just bought a new unit complete with baskets.

I had been thinking something like this

Really lovely fabric baskets here that you can make. Just dont bother with the patchwork if you arent into that.

notsorichandnotsofamous

The budget bundles are back in stock at fabric rehab

http://www.fabricrehab.co.uk/fabric.php?product=840&cat=34

I have just ordered a couple of packs and hope I have better luck with mine than Pootleflump did !


Deb

shirlgirl2004

PootleFlump wrote: »

Really lovely fabric baskets here that you can make. Just dont bother with the patchwork if you arent into that.

I like the look of patchwork and did have a little go once but using some excess curtain material which had a more stretch to it than cotton. I just could not get the patches to line up, I guess I'm a perfectionist with things like that because it is so obvious when it's done badly. Looks a great tute though so I will make one and see how I go. The worse that can happen is I still have to buy baskets.

Savvy_sewing

notsorichandnotsofamous wrote: »

The budget bundles are back in stock at fabric rehab

http://www.fabricrehab.co.uk/fabric.php?product=840&cat=34

I have just ordered a couple of packs and hope I have better luck with mine than Pootleflump did !


Deb

I think I will give it a miss.

Shirlgirl, re the fabric baskets.
If you are making your own you can use BUCKRAM, I think thats what its called. The stuff they use to make pelmets and curtain tiebacks. this will stiffen the sides of your fabric baskets.

This months copy of Sew Mag, has a soft storage box to make on page 44. But I think all of those that you have seen etc are smaller then you are intending.
Good luck with finding/making what your after.
The box on the tutorial, is made very much like my bags are made, and apart from the patchwork side of it, they are easy to construct. Well patchwork is not hard, just time consuming. I am not sure I could be bothered with 2" squares. But then it would use up someof the off cuts from my other makes!.mmmm

cut out some orange and black from a blouse and a pair of trousers, ready to make some halloween bunting. Have some Halloween ribbon thats begging to be turned into something!.

Going away again this weekend, so its will not be until Monday now, alas.

shirlgirl2004

Just had a look at the rehab bundles again. With postage it costs £3.75 for roughly a FQ of material. I just don't see the bargain, unless you make lots of little knick nak things there won't be enough fabric to do anything with. I passed on it last time because of this but some people did get some lovely fabrics just not enough to do anything with for me.

Can't believe you're starting on Halloween already Mooloo.

xxvickixx

Just a thought about the baskets. You could construct a box frame using pine stripwood with a ply base but open sides. Then make a simple tie or velcro on fabric shell to cover it. That should be cheap, quick and easy. Maybe use hessian to give the basket sort of effect.


Have done a sketch as it's hard to describe! I think sewing the sides up might be better actually with the tops attached with a strip of velcro, so you can slip it off to pop in the wash.

cuddles123

Mooloo wrote: »

I think I will give it a miss.

Shirlgirl, re the fabric baskets.
If you are making your own you can use BUCKRAM, I think thats what its called. The stuff they use to make pelmets and curtain tiebacks. this will stiffen the sides of your fabric baskets.

This months copy of Sew Mag, has a soft storage box to make on page 44. But I think all of those that you have seen etc are smaller then you are intending.
Good luck with finding/making what your after.
The box on the tutorial, is made very much like my bags are made, and apart from the patchwork side of it, they are easy to construct. Well patchwork is not hard, just time consuming. I am not sure I could be bothered with 2" squares. But then it would use up someof the off cuts from my other makes!.mmmm

cut out some orange and black from a blouse and a pair of trousers, ready to make some halloween bunting. Have some Halloween ribbon thats begging to be turned into something!.

Going away again this weekend, so its will not be until Monday now, alas.

Think its called Pelmet Vylene,

Savvy_sewing

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

Just had a look at the rehab bundles again. With postage it costs £3.75 for roughly a FQ of material. I just don't see the bargain, unless you make lots of little knick nak things there won't be enough fabric to do anything with. I passed on it last time because of this but some people did get some lovely fabrics just not enough to do anything with for me.

Can't believe you're starting on Halloween already Mooloo.

Niether can I really! but I have only 2 market stall days to sell them, so if I want my stall to look upto the minute, I need to have some themed things. I have actually started thinking more seriously about christmas as thats going to be harder when using things that I am recycling.! The blouse I used for the bunting was a charity shop find, and the trousers were given to me by a friend who didnt want them.
But Christimas stuff, I may have to purchase some things to embelish stuff.!! Why did I say I would do a stall at all? Must be mad as a hatter!:D