Learn how to make straps for hanging baskets. As promised, here’s the tutorial for the hanging strap template, enabling you to turn all your regular bins into cute multi-tasking wall hanging bins. The free sewing pattern is available to all new subscribers to AppleGreen Cottage who sign up at this link. Scroll down to get your own free copy!
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You can use this strap tutorial for any projects you’d need it for, off course. However, originally, I made it as part of the hanging basket tutorial. I’m showing it on a separate page to prevent a long download time due to a lot of step-by-step images here. (Nobody likes it when opening a webpage takes like forever, right?) Now quickly back to sewing:
How To Make Straps
You’ll Need:
- 1 piece of 6 x 2.75 inch (15.5cm x 7cm) midweight cotton or home decor fabric (same as the basket fabric!)
- 1 piece same size cotton for lining
- 1 piece same size fusible fleece (or any other type of interfacing you prefer)
- coordinating sewing thread
- sewing machine, iron, scissors or rotary cutter+mat, pins, ruler
- one set of KAM snaps pieces (4 pieces: 2 caps and a socket and a stud piece)
- KAM snap pliers (best get them in a set)
- an awl
- template (free for subscribers to the newsletter, you can join here.)
The FINAL (straightened) hanging strap size is 2 inch wide by 5 inch long (when sewn in).
Your FREE TEMPLATE
This is the template for the small hanging basket to help you along the way. If you subscribe to Applegreen Cottage newsletter at THIS link, you’ll get the Hanging Storage Basket Template for FREE. Here:
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If you’re already a newsletter subscriber, you can access the pattern with the password in each newsletter, in the resource library:
For anyone who’d prefer not to subscribe for the newsletter, you can still purchase the hanging basket pattern at this link in my shop.
How To Make A Strap For Hanging Baskets
– Tutorial
1) Using your template, cut out 3 pieces of fabric:
- 1 piece from outer fabric
- 1 from lining fabric, and
- 1 piece out of fusible fleece /stabilizer.
2) Using your iron and a piece of cloth, apply stabilizer to the wrong side of the outer fabric.
3) Place the lining and outer fabric right-sides-together. Then stitch around, leaving one side open (the side opposite the slanted end). You’ll need that for turning.
4) Turn the piece inside-out, using a chopstick, a point turner tool, or something else that is not sharp. (You don’t want to poke a hole into the fabric.)
5) This is the flap-form piece. Now we’ll add the KAM snaps.
First, make sure you have all four parts of a KAM snaps set:
- 2 caps. They will be installed on top of the outer fabric layer. See the image below.
- 1 socket piece
- 1 stud piece
Get your KAM pliers and the awl ready.
6) Use the marks on the PDF template or choose your own place to pierce the holes for KAM snaps. Use your awl and pierce two small holes through all layers, just to allow the cap prong through.
NOTE:
- On the SLANTED end of the FLAP: use 1 cap + 1 stud piece
- On the other (unfinished) end of the FLAP: use 1 cap + 1 socket piece
You’ll recognize the stud piece as it is flat on one side.
7) First, push the cap pin from the front side to the back through the hole.
6) Then place the stud piece onto the cap pin from the other side of the fabric.
7) Using your KAM pliers, squeeze the two pieces firmly together. The plastic cap pin will get flattened, holding the snap together.
8) Repeat on the other side of the flap, this time using a cap + socket piece.
Place them together, align, and squeeze using your KAM pliers.
9) Here, finished!
The strap is finished and ready to be attached to your sewing project.
NOTE: Instead of KAM snaps, you could also use a button on one side and make a button hole on the other side, but these snaps are so much quicker! Attached in no time. And I had to pick up my kids from daycare, so – sorry, buttons. Some other time. 🙂
The strap can be used on any basket you want to transform into a hanging basket. Feel free to check out two of my popular bin patterns you can use with the strap:
KAIA mini bin pattern. It’s one of my most popular patterns:
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| Get the KAIA Pattern here. |
Or, if you prefer the scalloped top, this one:
Sum of their Stories says
What a useful tutorial. thank you. Pinning.