Storage Basket – Free PDF Sewing Pattern

A fabric storage basket – soft, but firm enough to stand up on its own.

With this free PDF pattern you sew a rectangular open basket, lined, with fusible wadding for body and a handle on the front. Made for the sewing corner: bobbins, notions, small things that need a place.

✨ Why sew it

• open rectangular shape, easy to grab into;
• lined – the inside is as neat as the outside;
• fusible wadding for a basket that holds its shape;
• handle on the front to carry it from one room to another;
• a quick project, and a good first go at a structured object.

📐 About the pattern

• one size;
• basket panel cut on the fold: 1× from the outer fabric, 1× from the lining, 2× from the fusible wadding (two layers, for the stand);
• handle cut on the fold: 1× from the outer fabric;
• seam allowances of 1 cm (3/8 in) included;
• the basket panel is taller than a sheet of paper: it is spread over the two pages – trim along the red dashed line, then butt the two sheets together;
• print at 100 % and check the 5 × 5 cm test square (a 2 × 2 in square is added on the US Letter version);
• easy level.

✂️ What you need

• outer fabric, fairly thick cotton – canvas, gabardine or cotton twill: one 45 × 40 cm rectangle;
• lining fabric: one 45 × 40 cm rectangle;
• fusible wadding: two 45 × 40 cm rectangles;
• matching thread, scissors, pins, sewing machine.

📦 What you get

• the free PDF pattern for the storage basket;
• the file EN-A4-Storage-Basket.pdf, A4, 2 pages, fully in English;
• the same pattern in US Letter (EN-LETTER-Storage-Basket.pdf, 2 pages, both test squares included);
• also in the download: the French, German and Spanish A4 versions;
• a step-by-step video tutorial.

🎥 The video tutorial

Julien sews the basket in the Couture Enfant video and shows every step. The video is in French; in the YouTube player you can switch on the auto-translated subtitles.