These are the trick-or-treat baskets that I was going to recover for Halloween, but never got around to it. I decided I’d do one for Easter instead. These are really crappy instructions, mostly because I made it up as I went along at my normal, break-neck, instant gratification speed, but it’s pretty easy and a nice way to reuse those cheapo Halloween baskets. I’m planning to do two more for the girls for trick-or-treating this year. I also took about half the number photos I really needed to. My bad.

Here’s what I started with

First, I removed the cover from the basket, without ruining it.

Then, I opened up all the darts on the cover so it would lay flat, but I left the side seems in tact and laid it out on my Easter fabric to use as the pattern

Then I cut a double layer of fabric just a little bigger all around the pattern and sewed the two layers right sides together, up each side, leaving the top and bottom open.

I pinned the pattern to the fabric to get an idea of where to sew the darts.

Then, I sewed a bunch of darts around the bottom like this.

I just eyeballed it and did one centered between each side seem and then one each centered between each seem and dart, so there were eight seems/darts total.

I put the wire frame of the basket inside the new cover to see if I was close

Then, I hand-stitched a small circle of fabric to the bottom of the new cover to fill the hole.

After that, I put the frame back in and folded the top edge down a couple of times until it met up fairly close to the top of the frame, but still stuck up a little higher and pinned the top edge in place.

I folded another long piece of fabric into a handle and sewed that onto the top edge in two places

Then I put the frame back inside and stitched the frame to the cover in four or five places around the top and I was finished.