Congrats on 700+ subscribers - I see you're at 705 this morning. Thought I'd sneak in a quick video before the busy day begins. (I was hoping set-up would be finished last night, but alas there's still quite a bit left to do and the convention officially opens tonight - ye gods, gonna be a hectic day indeed!) Your basket turned out pretty nice. The quilting looks great! I've heard of the tape method of quilting but haven't tried it myself; good to see that it really does work. The basket is a very usable size, and appears to be quite sturdy. I like that you put the label higher than in the demo pic; it just looks right closer to the brim in my not-so-humble opinion. Sewers Club always has such good patterns, and this is definitely one of their better ones ("Best of the best of the best, SIR!") I realized while watching today that the instructions have drawings rather than photos, and yet I'm not bothered by that even though I am annoyed by the drawings in the Sew What instructions. I think it's because the SW drawings look like rough drafts/sketches, whereas the SC ones are done with precision; you can actually see what it's going to look like using the materials provided. Hope everyone has a lovely Friday 🙂
Sorry I'm so late to respond, my weekend also became crazy! I'm hoping your convention is going well. I really like the quilting on this basket too, I think I am going to do this method on smaller projects a lot more often. The tape also held up for the entirety of each piece, so I only used 4 pieces for everything, so it wasn't super wasteful. I like the label placement too but it still counts as user error 😁SC has always used drawn diagrams but they look drafted, well planned and nicely placed, so it makes sense in the pattern. It's the hand drawn that gets me.
Happy Birthday! I was looking forward to this video. I haven't made it yet but I saw Holly Schmidt (Dandelion Stitches) video and she had trouble with the chicago screws.
thank you ❤️ I will say that I also had difficulty with the screws at first, but I used the awl to make sure I pierced all the fabric in the same place and then I used snips to widen the hole a tiny bit. I was very cautious with my cuts so it did take me some time. The whole project took me just over 5 hours and I'd say the screws were about an hour of that time.
