Organise beauty essentials: make a beauty basket

• Machine embroider a monogrammed napkin
• Machine embroider a table runner
• Machine embroider a cushion
• Keep your clothes in good condition: craft projects for your wardrobe
• Sew matchbox mice
• Make a clothesline playhouse
• Make a flower wall-hanging
• Make a play sail
• Make a Swedish blind
• Revamp your garden chairs
• By the sea: coastal craft projects
• Make a cube footstool
• Cushion-making for beginners
• How to make bunting (plus free Union Jack bunting to print)
• Sew a fat hen
• Sew a felt flower cushion
• Make bunting from old clothes
• Protect your gadgets: cases to sew
• Keep the pot hot: tea cosies to make
• Stitch a Union Jack felt cushion
• Stitch a heart-design needle case
• Sew a Union Jack cushion
• Take a metre of fabric...
• Make pretty placemats
• Sew a Cath Kidston appliqué tea-towel
• Sew a Cath Kidston patchwork star throw
• Sew a Cath Kidston rose linen pillowcase
• Sew a Cath Kidston patchwork laundry bag
• Pretty patchwork projects, from Cath Kidston
• Sew an iPhone cover
• Make felt Christmas decorations
• Sew personalised Christmas sacks
• Make it personal: great gifts to make
• Organise beauty essentials: make a beauty basket
• Sew embroidered Christmas stockings
• Sew some scented sachets
• Sew a personalised pillowcase
• Sew pretty heart keyrings
• Sew a Christmas table runner
• Make a felt snowflake Christmas garland
• Sew a mouse pincushion
• Sew a fleece hot water bottle cover
• Make a padded felt iPad case
• Sew a tweed doggie cushion
• Sew a tweed doorstop
• Sew a tweed heart
• Sew a Kindle cover
• Sew a doorstop
• Make a lightweight summer quilt
• How to make a traditional lavender bag
• Take an old tea-towel...
• How to appliqué hand towels
• Sew cushion covers for garden chairs
• Make a Sophie Conran handkerchief cushion
• Make a Sophie Conran picnic box cushion
• Make a Sophie Conran ruffle cushion
• Make a Sophie Conran button monogram cushion
• Make a Sophie Conran silk scatter cushion
• Make a Sophie Conran simple scarf cushion
• Make a Sophie Conran patchwork cushion
• Sew a pretty patchwork tea cosy
• How to cover a lampshade
• Sew a memory heart
• Sew a patchwork pin cushion
• Sew a patchwork-trimmed pillow case
• Sew a room tidy with storage pockets
• Sew appliquéd egg cosies
• Make Easter egg-hunt bags
• Sew Easter chick and bunny decorations
• Make a cross-stitch toadstool pincushion
• Create a cross-stitch coat-hanger cover
• Create a cross-stitch heart cushion cover
• Create a cross-stitch lavender bag
• Create a tailor-made towel - with cross-stitch
• Sew a personalised cushion
• Sew a heart button cushion
• Sew a 'home' appliqué cushion
• Make a tea-towel storage bag
• Make a patchwork throw
• Make a padded coathanger
• Transform a plain white pillowcase
• Make an under-bed storage bag
• Sew a tissue box cover
• Make a gift-wrapping storage bag
• Make a toy bag
• Sew a reversible duvet cover
• Sew a shell-trimmed tablecloth
• Sew a patchwork quilt bedspread
• Sew a beach-hut doorstop
• Sew an appliqué boat cushion
• Sew a Lisa Stickley bolster
• Sew a Lisa Stickley suit carrier
• Re-cover a chaise longue
• Make sweet-smelling lavender-filled birds
• Sew a pretty drawstring washbag
• Create an embroidered picture
• Make a pretty cushion - from a tea towel
• Transform an old jumper into a footstool cover
• Transform an old jumper into a cushion cover
• Transform an old jumper into a hot-water bottle cover
• Sew an ironing-board cover
• Dine in style: simple slip covers
• Dine in style: table runner and place mats
• Beat the chill: make a draught-excluder
• Sit in comfort: make a beanbag
• Sew a love-heart cushion
• Transform a teatowel: peg bag
• Transform a teatowel: lavender pillow
• Sew pretty padded hangers
• Sew a waterproof washbag
• Make a stylish door curtain
• Create a drawstring-bag advent calendar
• Make a tie-fastening cushion cover
• Sew quick and easy curtains: bay-window curtains
• Sew quick and easy curtains: puffball header
• Sew quick and easy curtains: trimmed panel
• Sew quick and easy curtains: wave-pleats finish
• Turn a tablecloth into a Roman blind
• Make a pet photo cushion
• Sew love-heart lavender bags
• Sewing projects for fabric scraps
• Make a practical beach shade
• Sew a weatherproof picnic blanket
• Sew a Cath Kidston rose knitting bag
• Make a pretty bedspread
• Make a beaded jug cover
• Getting started with cushion making
• Curtain-making for beginners
• Make a bow cushion
• Add appliqué to a cushion
• Make a gathered lampshade
• Create new-look pillowcases
• Sew decorative fabric hearts
• Make a doggie beanbag
• Sew a pretty knitting bag
• Sew a house tea cosy
• Sew a pretty cosmetic bag
• Transform plain bedlinen
• How to make a patchwork cushion
• Make a stylish cushion from ribbons
• Create a stylish fabric window dressing
• Make a bed curtain
• How to make a garden cushion
• How to make a gardener’s kneeler
• Make a pretty laundry basket liner
• Make a handy peg bag
• Three ways to create a pretty headboard
• Embellish a plain cushion with buttons and beads
• Make a ribbon-trimmed cushion and gathered silk cushion
• Make pretty scented sachets
• Make simply beautiful pillowcases
• Stunning silk curtains to make
• Brighten up your garden with bunting
• One cushion, four new looks
• Make a Roman blind

Turn an old basket into a practical container for your beauty supplies, using PVC for a wipe-clean liner.

Spray the basket with primer inside and out, followed by your choice of paint. Make a paper pattern to fit inside.

Measure the size of the straight strip needed for the sides. Cut out from PVC-coated fabric, allowing 1cm seam allowances all round both pieces.

Stitch ends of strip together taking 1cm seam allowances. Stitch one edge of strip to base, taking 1cm seam allowance.

Cut four 50cm lengths of narrow ribbon or bias binding pressed in half and stitched. Turn under 1cm around top edge of fabric.

Fold ties in half and stitch fold to top edge of fabric when stitching around top edge of lining. Put lining inside basket and thread ties through holes in weave. Tie ends in bows.

We used PVC coated fabric from a selection at John Lewis (0845 604 9049) and a garden-centre basket.

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