Here’s my pattern for a colorful, large, round basket with an interesting wavy stripes design. It works up fairly quickly, once you get the hang of the stitch pattern. The finished basket is accented with matching colorful crocheted circles and wood buttons. The circles are crocheted separately and sewn on after the basket is complete, so they are optional.

I made this in Red Heart Super Saver, an inexpensive worsted weight acrylic craft yarn, so that it will be stiff enough to stand up on its own. Because of its size, this basket tends to be slightly floppy. You can use other worsted weight yarn, such as a coarse wool, but soft yarns, such as merino wool, silk, cotton or blends would probably not be suitable if you don’t want a floppy basket.

The finished basket size is about 7.5” diameter and about 7” tall.

Skill Level This is not a very difficult pattern but it does require some concentration to follow the instructions and count stitches. I wouldn’t undertake it as a first crochet project but I’ve tried to include enough details so that an advanced beginner with some experience can probably handle it.

To make the basket shown, you will need the following:

Materials:

G Hook (4.25 MM) Note on gauge and hook size: Gauge is not that important for a basket, although you do not want holes between your stitches. I used a G hook because I crochet rather loosely, so I almost always go down one size to obtain gauge when I follow directions. If you crochet pretty tightly or if you usually obtain gauge with the hook suggested in a pattern, then you might want to use an H hook. My gauge was 6 stitches and 4 rows in the wavy strip pattern equal about 2”. For the single crochet rounds for the basket base, my gauge was 7 stitches and 7 rows equal about 2”

1 skein each of Red Heart Super Saver in the following 5 colors:

Buff
Gold
Tea Leaf (Green)
Cherry Red
Blue Suede

Note on yardage: Five skeins of this yarn are more than enough to make several baskets. There are 364 yards in each skein of the Red Heart Super Saver. I’ve made several other projects using these same skeins and barely made a dent in the skeins. If you use another brand of worsted weight yarn or leftover yarn from your stash, I’d estimate about 100 yards of the main color (that’s the Buff here) and about 50 yards of each stripe color.

Tapestry Needle (for attaching the circles to the basket and weaving in ends)

8 small wood buttons

Needle and Thread (to sew buttons to the crocheted circles)