Our Easter tradition for many years now has been to visit Memphis during the Easter holidays and stay with Nichol's grandparents. While there, we also get to see most of his extended family, as they get together on Easter Sunday. The difficulty with traveling for Easter is that baskets just don't pack well. I'm not about to pay the silly check-on bag fees just because I haven't found a basket with a collapsible weave.
I had been considering fabric baskets for some time, when Corynn told me she wanted one of the fabric Easter buckets from the Pottery Barn kids catalog. They weren't particularly fancy, and cost about $27 (customized with names). I debated just buying them, but decided it was time to test my sewing skills again.
I found this fabric basket tutorial: http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2009/02/tutorial-toy-gathering-bucket/, hit Joann's for the materials, and got to work:
I used scraps from the assembly to make the matching flower pins. I got a few compliments at a church Easter egg hunt...I love these baskets, and they'll fold flat in the luggage. I call that success...
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