The Giant Blue Crochet Basket

A large, floppy, and oddly shaped crochet basket made with tweedy navy blue yarn.

I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole a couple of weeks ago - a big blue crocheted one at that. Crochet baskets have been popping up a lot recently on my various feeds, YouTube binging, and algorithms. This time, instead of filing the idea away for later, I really had to make one. When I had an opportunity to go stash diving for yarns to make a giant, scrappy basket, I pulled out enough yarn to make four! All different sized baskets, of course. And I might have bought a skein of puffy cotton yarn and some wood basket bottoms to try something completely new to me.

A large, floppy, and oddly shaped crochet basket made with tweedy navy blue yarn.

I very loosely followed along with a pattern in a video so I could figure out what I was doing. The basket turned out looking like an upside down chef’s hat instead of a cylinder, but I was eyeballing most of it and wanted to try something new. I also didn’t feel like ripping back hours of work spent with this dark navy blue yarn. The upside is that I know how to do a better job on the next one. Plus, this giant, blue thing is weird and I love it. Making it helped me get reacquainted with the movements of crochet - making chains and so much single crochet - which was one of my main goals when I started. I’m also thrilled that I was able to use over 1,000 yds of yarn that I wasn’t sure what to do with until a few weeks ago. Now I’m looking at my yarn stash in a whole new light.

A large, floppy, and oddly shaped crochet basket made with tweedy navy blue yarn.

A large, floppy, and oddly shaped crochet basket made with tweedy navy blue yarn.

Somehow, making this giant wasn’t enough. All of my current knitting WIP’s need a bit of work to get back to easy, autopilot status and I’m not up for that at the moment. So I grabbed a hook and another skein of of yarn - a much smaller one - and got going. I’ll show that basket and at least one more off in my next post.


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Wooly Links: March 2022

Wooly Links posts are a collection of interesting and helpful fiber arts links (and one or two other cool things) that I’ve found scrolling through the web.

Really appreciated this short demo from Jillian Moreno on spinning from the fold.

And another quick tip from Jillian Moreno about how to spin a yarn with stripes of intermittent color.

Local Yarn Shop Day this year is April 30th.

Why your stitches look different when you knit with different yarns be they singles, 2-ply, 8-ply, or chainette.

Love this quick example of how to cross lace your flyer to spin finer yarns.

What cute crochet rainbow pillow!

A short and to the point video tutorial about how to securely join fiber while spinning singles/plies.

Love the idea of using a three-needle bind off to seam a blanket together. I might use it on my next big blanket project.

Here’s a totally handy round-up of different ways to weave in ends with on a variety of knit stitches and with a variety of fibers.

This is Judy’s Magic Cast-on as I learned it, without having to knit half the stitches through the back loop. I love the structure of it starting out and how clean it looks when the sock is complete.

And now for something different…

How Dinosaurs Thrived in the Snow

How Many Sea Star Species Live in British Colombia?