A New Years Projects

When we first moved in here, I made a bunch of boxes to house our movie collection. Over the last few years, our collection has grown and this past Christmas saw a substantial increase. So, it was time to move our game controllers into a new home to make space for it all.

This change would fill up all the boxes underneath, and a new box wouldn't work because the cabinets is full. So, a new solution would need to be devised.

Somewhere, on the interwebs (probably Facebook), I saw a video of how to make a basket by wrapping rope around a cheap basket. This seemed just the thing! Sadly, I couldn't find the video again so I did some searching and found a few tutorials that looked similar and I set to work.

It was all hot glue, all the way. I was really pleased with how much stability wrapping with rope added to the dollar store basket.

In the video, they had some kind of trick to cut and fit the fabric just right... however, I couldn't find the exact directions I saw. The other tutorial suggested putting the outside fabric first and then add the lining, so that's what I did.

I got it all put together, and only burned my fingers a little bit. Adding the lining after the outside fabric was a little bulky.. if I was doing it again, I'd try to get it all done with one piece of fabric. However, this is still a great little basket! I'm very happy with how it came out.

And it fits all our game controllers very nicely.

Wohoo! Upcycling, low-budget projects are always extra satisfying.