Welcome back to my site dear creative friends! I hope you’re well. And today I have something exciting to show you. Its this beautiful basket made out of a doily or stylish coasters. And it turns out, the process is super simple. You just need sugar, water and a doily. You could also use a fabric stiffener if you have one. But with stiffener, the yarn looses its lustre just a little bit if its not white. So I want to try out how it does with sugar syrup. Well, this is my first trial basket. I wanted to see how strong or durable would the basket be, and its pretty strong. I can see that the colour didn’t go dull. Let’s check further with these 2 doilies.
I’m using 2 different designs here. This mint is lacier, and the dark grey is more compact, being lacier towards the outer round.
STEPS OF CONSTRUCTION:
We do the following steps to create our beautiful fruit basket:
Step 1: We mix 2 parts of sugar to 1 part of hot water. You could be using more or less materials. So accordingly measure your mixture maintaining the ratio 2:1.
Step 2: Then, heat it in the stove until it dissolves completely. It’s going to be a saturated sugar syrup.
Step 3: Now soak it for a few minutes. Then squeeze out the sugar solution gently.
Step 4: Place it on a bowl, adjust and arrange it.
Step 5: And then you can sun-dry, or put it in your oven if you want it to dry faster. Because sun drying can take up to 2 days to completely dry and harden it. I’m Going to sun-dry it though
Step 6: Once its fully dried, gently unwrap the basket from the bowl. If required, dry it for another hour or two.
And that’s it. We have a sturdy beautiful basket made out of a doily. You can use this beautiful basket for anything you want. Its not only beautiful but strong and sturdy. Not what you expected right? Go on and give it a try and tag me on social media if you make one. I hope you enjoy this process
If You want to see the visual tutorial, its available on my YouTube Channel too. Or you can view it here itself.
Thank you so much for reading my post. Enjoy the process in every step. I had so much fun creating this DIY. I hope you have fun too. Let me know how it turns out for you.
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If you have any trouble with this pattern, find errors or want to give feedback, please feel free to contact me at lushandicrafts@gmail.com. Also a visual tutorial is available on my YouTube channel, Lu’s Handicrafts, if you need further assistance.