The best gift idea: The Juniper Basket

 

 I'm just a little bit in love with what my 6yo daughter & I just finished sewing today!

The basket was such an easy sew (really simple, just rectangles) and we adapted it to fit our needs by skipping the front pocket and adding a cute motif to the front instead.

Delaney drew the picture herself, see image above and then sat & chose what fabrics she wanted to for the person (her teacher). I then traced the image onto the fabric and she wrote directly onto the fabric using a frixion pen which I sewed directly over. In case you're not fluent in 5/6 yo handwriting, I'll translate for you....

It says::::   To Miss Pearson from Delaney 2019

My lil girl is totally in smitten with the basket she made and I sure hope that her teacher will love it too and as always, my kids have requested a basket each and I think I'll make myself a couple as well.

Pattern: The Juniper Basket I made the smaller size
Fabrics: outer & scraps from my stash and the top & handles was this linen.

So tell me , if you were a Primary School teacher, teaching Prep, 

would you like this bag or is .. bad, too much or you'd really rather just a Tea hamper?!

   

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