This free crochet basket pattern is a practical, step-by-step tutorial you can enjoy all year round, whether you’re making festive baskets for Christmas gifts and décor or creating useful storage for yarn, home and Nursery organisation. These handy crochet baskets are super versatile and perfect for keeping small items tidy or adding a simple handmade touch to your home.
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Struggling With A Floppy Crochet Basket?
If your basket won’t hold its shape, curls inwards, or collapses — don’t worry, this is one of the most common crochet problems.
In this guide, I’ll show you exactly how to fix it so your basket stands up properly and looks clean, sturdy, and giftable.
These baskets are easy to make. You can swap the colours to suit your own style and add whatever decorations you choose, here I have chosen to add a sweet wooden snowflake, but labels, ribbons, bows and bells would look just as good. The best bit about these baskets is the wooden base.
The wooden base makes this a super quick make and means the basket has a great shape and is sturdy…all good elements for a useful basket to have. You will find bases in all sorts of shapes and sizes on lots of different shopping sites. I got mine from Etsy, as I like to support small business owners when I can. Take a look here to get started
What Type Of Yarn Is Best For Crochet Baskets
I would just like to talk about your choice of yarn or cord. I purchased several versions before I settled on one I was happy with. Some were too splitty, or dull, or just didn’t crochet well. I highly recommend using this 5mm braided recycled cotton cord because it is economical, comes in a great colour range and is easy to work with.
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⭐ Easy to print and follow anywhere
⭐ Ad-free for a calm crochet experience
⭐ Available to download in both UK or US crochet terms
⭐ Helps support my small crochet business
Pattern notes
The pattern that follows can be adapted to any size or shape base. The pattern uses English crochet terminology, but you can find US crochet terminology in brackets just below.
I strongly advise that you mark the 1st chain 1 of each round with a stitch marker. Repeats are marked by *
Materials
5mm braided cotton cord in colour of your choice
wooden base(s)
scissors
hooks – see below
stitch marker
decorations of your choice – bows / bells / small tree ornaments
Stitches used
DC – double crochet ( SC – single crochet)
slst – slip stitch
Ch – chain stitch
Dc: Insert hook into chain or under both loops of stitch, yarn over and pull through so there are 2 loops on hook, yarn over again and pull through both loops on hook.
Hooks used
5mm and 8mm
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To Start
Start by holding cord underneath the base. Using smaller hook pull up a loop through the first hole in the base.
Yarn over and pull through loop on your hook.
*Pull up next loop from the underside of base through next hole and complete DC* Repeat around base to last hole. Slst in 1st st.
Now turn work so outside of the basket is facing you.
Round 2: Using larger hook. Ch1 (counts as a st) place marker. DC in next stitch and in each st around.
Round 3: ch 1, continue to place DC in each st for desired height of basket, placing marker in ch1 of each round. Change colours as desired.
eg/ large basket pictured had a base with 37 holes / 17cm diameter. I completed rounds 1 – 8 in candy red and rounds 9 – 11 in natural. Final round in natural also. My basket measures 14cms tall.
Final round: Do not ch1, slst in each st around. Fasten off.
With smaller hook weave in loose ends. Weave starting tail at base so that it fills in the gap.
Now decorate your basket as desired.
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