This decorative basket with its artful crisscross pattern and pentagon base is a real eye catcher and offers plenty of room for all your little odds and ends.

Whether you want to use it as a fruit basket, a basket for bread rolls on the breakfast table, for your crochet and knitting materials of for all kinds of little toys – they’ll all be kept safe in here.

This basket is very versatile, self-supporting, washable and can even be folded to save room if needed.

Bring the charm of this warm autumn basket into your home and brighten up the cold days.

Size using the indicated material, the basket “Autumn Colors” will be about 5 in / 13 cm high and will have a diameter of about 8 in/ 20 cm

Difficulty Level: medium, basic knowledge of crochet techniques required

Stitches/ techniques used:
chain stitch, slip stitch, single crochet, reverse single crochet (short description included), half double crochet, double crochet, front post treble crochet (short description included), Magic Ring, increasing/, changing color, work in spiral rounds and closed rounds

Material:

• Crochet hook size 4.5
• Cotton yarn (e.g. Schoeller & Stahl Record 210) in the colors orange, red, light green and dark brown (82 yds / 1.75 oz or 90 m / 50 g) – you may, of course, also use any other type of yarn and crochet hook in matching size

Amount of yarn needed:
For the basket shown in the picture (diameter about 8 in/ 20 cm) I have used a total amount of about 220g of yarn, which means two balls of orange and one ball (50g) of each red, light green and dark brown.

Gauge:
4 inch x 4 inch = 17 hdc x 12 rows (10 x 10 cm)
Don’t worry if your gauge doesn’t match 100% here – that just means your basket might turn out slightly smaller or bigger than mine. The important thing is that you found a yarn you really like 

Please note:
This poduct contains a written Crochet Pattern as PDF document which will be available to you for download after payment has been received. It does NOT, however, contain the finished figure itself.

This English pattern is written in US Terms, but I have attached a conversion Chart for US/UK at the end.

You have a question?
If you have any questions regarding this pattern, don’t hesitate to drop me a message at aramis-von-k@gmx.net

Copyright:
This pattern has been developed by Aramis-von-K. and is intended for private purposes only.
Hand-made items crocheted using this pattern may be sold in small quantities (no commercial production!).