Zakka Along Week 18 :: Bread Basket

This week's Zakka project is a little bread basket designed by Roxy Creations. Tamiko of Patchwork Notes shared her darling version of the basket along with a sad little story about some wild blackberry scones. snif

For my version, I went totally linen this time around. Remember when I received some lovely Sunshine from Generation Q a while back? For some reason, it came immediately to mind for this project - so bright and cheerful.

For the main body of the basket, I used Essex Linen in natural - they paired so nicely together! For  stabilizer, I used 808 Craft Fuse, which might have made it a tad more difficult to work with overall, but gave a really nice feel to the finished project.

And my Grandma's button tin came through for me this week with, in my humble opinion, the perfect button for a closure. For the loop, I used some of the natural twill tape I used on my Zakka Linen Bag, but stitched it in half to make it quite narrow. That worked perfectly!

Overall, I found this project fairly straight-forward, until it came time to sew the basket and handle edges all together. I got a tad confused at the junction of the basket and the handles. I didn't notice a mention in the book or other posts I'd read about being particular at these spots, but at any rate, I achieved a couple of little tucks. Oh well. I think it's pretty sweet anyway.

Linking up with LRstitched.