How to Sew a DIY Fabric Bread Basket

For me, a successful weekend always includes a hearty breakfast. Fresh rolls from the local bakery are an important part of this and what could be better than a homemade bread basket.

Today I'll show you step by step how easy it is. You need an outer fabric and a lining fabric, cotton is best for this. A fleece insert is used for stabilization. My bread basket is intended for two people, so I cut as follows:

    2 x 25 x 30 cm outer fabric
    2x 25 x 30 cm lining fabric
    2 x 25 x 30 cm fusible interfacing for ironing on

You can of course change the dimensions as you wish. The seam allowances are already included in these measurements.

I chose Vichy checks in gray for the outer fabric and a plain fabric for the lining.

After cutting, all outer and lining fabric parts are first finished with a zig-zag stitch.

Now the fleece interlining is joined to the outer fabric. First determine which side can be ironed on, which you can recognize by the small dots, and then iron the dot side onto the wrong side of the outer fabric.

In the next step, place the two pieces of outer fabric right sides together so that the ironed-on interlining is on the outside.

Now pin the two pieces and stitch them together on the two short sides and one long side.

Next, place the two lining fabric pieces right sides together and pin in place. Again, stitch two short and one long side together, leaving an approx. 10 cm opening on the long side.  The opening lies between the two pins. It will be needed later for turning. The short side corresponds to the later side seam, the long side to the bottom seam.

Now grasp the piece of fabric with both hands in the middle of the surface (X) and turn it 90° so that the side seams are centered on top of each other. Now place the closed corners on top of each other to create a point.

Draw an approx. 10 cm long auxiliary line with chalk on each side at the tip.

The auxiliary line is now topstitched. Make sure that you stitch the tails individually and do not accidentally sew them together. Everything has already happened ;-)

Now repeat the last three steps for the outer fabric part. Lay the side and bottom seams on top of each other again to form the point, draw an auxiliary line approx. 10 cm long and topstitch the points individually.

Now turn the outer fabric piece. The result is a small pocket.

Now insert the outer fabric pocket into the lining fabric pocket, right sides facing.

Next, pin the two pockets to the top edge.

Topstitch the top edge all around.

The opening for turning is on the underside. The fabric is now pulled out of the opening and the whole thing is turned over.

After turning, turn the lining fabric to the outside so that the turning opening can be closed by hand.

Turn everything again one last time. Done!

The size of the bread basket can be adjusted in both width and height.