A Tisket A Tasket: My Little Yellow Aspen Basket

Yarn: Cascade Peruvian Highland Wool.  Eco-wool. Natural. 

Dye notes: Hand dyed soft yellow with yellow aspen leaves.  (Alum mordant) 

The dying process changed the yarn a bit.  I think this is because I left it in the dye pot for a LONG time-overnight. Also, I suspect I didn't get all of the mordant washed out.  I had one skein of this yarn.  I dyed about 1/2 of it with marigolds and the other half with aspen leaves.I did not do the whole skein in the same mordant.  The marigold yarn felt the same before and after the dying process. The aspen batch was not as fluffy. 


Directions for basket:

My basket is basically a riff on Anna and Heidi Pickles' granny basket, found for free on Revelry. I love their pattern and have made several Granny Baskets.  For my Aspen Basket, I wanted something floppy and a little less granny.  Mine will not stand up on its own. 

This is a simple basket, but I may not be the best person to be writing out patterns. Send me a message if you need help. 


Crochet a basic granny.  Stop when it is as big as you want the base of your basket to be. Do NOT fasten off.  ( Unless you are changing color.) 

Next round (Round A): continue as before, but instead of three DC,  put a 2dc cluster  in each chain space  and chain one in between.  Do this all the way around. Do not add extras clusters in corners. There are no more corners: you are now working in the round. Fasten with a slip stitch to beginning of round.

Next round (Round B): single crochet in each stitch around.  (One single crochet in the chain space and one in the top of each cluster) Fasten with a slip stitch to beginning of round.

Repeat these two rounds A,B,A,B, etc. until your basket is as tall as you want it. 

End with round B.  Add handles (Or not) .

To do handles: Find center of  round. Determine beginning and end of handles on each side.  Mark with stitch markers. Single crochet  from stitch marker to stitch marker. Chain to length you want your handles, fasten chain at next stitch marker, single crochet to next marker. 

Single crochet around, putting one single crochet in each single crochet and in each chain.  You can do this once or more- depending on what you like.