BASKET OF TIED CORD FOR GIFT WRAPPING

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Often, different baskets are used for gift wrapping, which you can make yourself if you wish. There are as many basket ideas for making a "container" for a gift, however, not every one of them is suitable for making a container of the right size.
One of the great ideas for making baskets, as well as handbags, containers, trays and wicker dishes, trays or bases for wall panels is to tie a cord with a thinner rope or thread. The finished product is very decorative and at the same time quite practical.

We will prepare a cord, yarn and a crochet hook for work.
For the manufacture of a gift basket were used:
- a polypropylene cord 0.7 cm thick;
- yarn from a yarn in two additions, in our case, black and blue yarn;
- hook number 4;
- satin ribbon for bow;
- transparent packaging wrapper (cellophane)
- a large needle with a wide eye.

Knitting starts from the center of the bottom of the future basket. We collect 4 working loops to start knitting, we close them in a ring. Then we knit the first row through the center of the resulting ringlet, for each air loop two columns without a crochet. We also knit the second row by doubling the total number of loops.

From the third row we begin to weave the cord. We lay it between the previous row of knitting and the work thread and begin to tie with double crochet, adding so many loops evenly in each row, so that when tying the cord of your chosen thickness, you get an even plane.

In this case, we leave the working thread behind the cord to be tied. We form the bottom of the basket. In our case, preference was given to the shape of a square, the basket should turn out to be square. Therefore, when knitting, we immediately select four corners and knit three double crochets into corner loops. We continue knitting until we get the bottom of the right size. It is best to knit a basket when the gift has already been prepared, so that the packing basket will be in time.

When the bottom suits us in size, we stop adding loops and continue knitting in a circle to the desired height of the basket. We take into account that when packing a gift, it does not need to be immersed in the depth of the form, it is desirable that the representative part of the gift is visible. Five rows were enough in our packing basket. We cut the cord and knit after it 2 double crochet, 2 single crochet and one half-column. We cut the thread and hide the tip.
The woven cord, as a rule, has sufficient elasticity, so it will tend to smooth the corners of the basket, turning it into a round one. To fix the shape, with the help of a large needle with a wide eye and the same thread that we used for knitting, we sew the corners of the basket, fixing the corners.

From a satin ribbon of a contrasting color we tie a bow and sew or pin it to the side or corner of the basket.

We pack a gift. We cut the cellophane film for packing flowers into strips 1.5 times wider than the sides of our basket, the length should allow these strips to close over the gift. There should be two such bands.

Fold them crosswise and fix with transparent tape around the edges.

We place the basket with the gift in the central area of the packaging cellophane, connect the stripes on top of the gift, fix them with a stapler. The sides of the package can be glued with transparent tape, if necessary.