How to Make a Cloth Basket Liner

Line your new handmade bread basket with a pretty liner to match your kitchen, and serve a hot loaf of homemade bread in it at your next dinner party. The following steps will make a liner to fit the bread basket from "How to Make a Bread Basket."

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Dressmaker's Measuring Tapes
• Fabrics
• Needle Threaders
• Needles
• Safety Pins
• Scrap Fabrics
• Thimbles
• Threads
• Drinking Glasses
• Scissors
• Elastic

1. Cut the material double the size of the basket or 20 inches by 24 inches.

2. Stretch 1/8-inch-wide elastic around the top of the basket. Pull the elastic snugly so the liner will fit tightly to the basket.

3. Cut elastic and set aside.

4. Round the corners of the material. Do this by placing a glass at the corner touching both sides of the fabric piece, and cutting around the curve of the glass.

5. Fold under a 1/4-inch seam allowance to the wrong side and stitch.

6. Fold the material over 3/4 inch to the wrong side for a band for the elastic.

7. Sew along the edge of the material leaving a 1/2-inch space at one end. This is where you will feed the elastic through.

8. Use a safety pin to thread the elastic through the band.

9. Stitch the ends of the elastic together

10. Whip-stitch the ends of the material together.

11. Place the liner in the basket with the right side facing up.

Tips & Warnings

• You can sew two pieces of fabric with contrasting patterns together for a reversible bread basket liner.