50 + Patterns for Fabric Baskets that are Fun and Cute!

Browse super cute patterns for fabric baskets – using your scraps, favorite fabric, and sewing machine you are set to get any space organized.

I love new sewing room ideas. One of them is fabric baskets and bins. There are a few things that you can never really make enough of– fabric bins or baskets is one of them. I have them holding fabric, scraps, sewing projects, pencils, little bits….you name it, it can store it.

While being organized is a big plus, the other benefit is the cuteness! Finding a way to show off fabric, designs, patterns….is always fun. These can brighten a room, shelf, and yet be useful as well.

Looking to add a touch of charm and organization to your living space? Fabric baskets are the perfect solution! Whether you’re tidying up your sewing room or adding storage to your craft corner, these DIY fabric baskets are a fantastic way to corral clutter in a creative way.

From small baskets for holding notions and small toys to larger ones for storing bulky items like fabric scraps or yarn, there’s a pattern for every need.

With simple construction and the opportunity to use up your fabric scraps, making your own fabric baskets is not only practical but also a fun and rewarding sewing project.

Fabric baskets offer versatile storage solutions for a variety of purposes, making them a practical and stylish addition to any space.

Here are some options for using fabric baskets and reasons why sewing them can be sooo helpful:

1. Organizing Sewing Supplies: Fabric storage baskets are perfect for corralling sewing notions, thread spools, and fabric scraps in sewing rooms. With various sizes available, you can choose the right basket to fit your sewing machine or fabric bin. Adding fusible fleece to the lining pieces provides extra strength and structure to support heavier items like sewing supplies. Find free sewing patterns online or in PDF format for DIY fabric baskets tailored to your sewing room’s needs.
2. Tidying Craft Rooms: Craft rooms can quickly become cluttered with fabric pieces, craft supplies, and small items like buttons or beads. Use fabric baskets to organize craft supplies by size or type, ensuring easy access to your favorite materials. Make smaller baskets for holding small toys or beads, or opt for larger baskets to store bulky craft supplies like yarn or fabric rolls. Consider adding cute buttons or leather handles to personalize your fabric baskets.
3. Storing Baby Items: Fabric baskets are a versatile storage solution for organizing baby items like diapers, wipes, and small toys in nurseries or playrooms. Sewing your own fabric baskets allows you to customize the size and color to match your nursery decor. Add a layer of fusible interfacing to the wrong side of the fabric for extra durability, ensuring your fabric baskets can withstand the wear and tear of daily use.
4. Containing Household Clutter: Fabric storage baskets are a stylish way to contain household clutter in the living room. Choose fabric in different colors and patterns to complement your decor and add a pop of color to your space. Use larger baskets to store blankets or throw pillows, or opt for smaller baskets to hold remote controls or magazines. Sewing your own fabric baskets ensures the perfect fit for your living room’s storage needs.
5. Organizing Craft Supplies: Keep your craft supplies tidy and accessible with fabric baskets in your craft room. Sewing tutorials and free sewing patterns are available online for making fabric baskets in various sizes and styles. Use fusible fleece or fusible interfacing to add extra strength and structure to your fabric baskets, ensuring they can hold heavy items like paper or paint bottles without sagging.
6. Creating Gift Baskets: Fabric baskets filled with homemade goodies make thoughtful gifts for friends and family. Sew your own fabric baskets using free patterns or tutorials, and fill them with items like handmade soaps, candles, or baked goods. Add a cute center flap or buttons to the top edge of the basket for a touch of whimsy. Share your cute projects on social media to inspire others to try their hand at DIY fabric baskets.
7. Enhancing Home Decor: Fabric baskets are not only practical but also decorative accents for your home. Sew your own fabric baskets in different colors and patterns to match your home decor style. Use fabric strips or squares of fabric to create a patchwork effect, or opt for solid colors for a more minimalist look. Add a layer of peltex to the bottom of the basket for extra stability, ensuring it stands up straight on shelves or countertops.
8. Maximizing Storage Space: Whether you need to store craft supplies, baby items, or household clutter, fabric baskets offer a convenient storage solution for maximizing space. Choose basket patterns that suit your storage needs, whether you prefer round baskets, square baskets, or rectangular baskets. Sewing your own fabric baskets allows you to customize the size and shape to fit your storage space perfectly, ensuring you make the most of every inch.

Patterns for Fabric Baskets

By sewing fabric baskets, you have the freedom to customize their size, shape, and design to fit your specific needs and preferences.

Plus, DIY fabric baskets are not only functional but also fun and satisfying sewing projects that allow you to express your creativity and make something useful for your home.

Large Fabric Basket

Crafty Staci / The big fabric basket was the goal. The little basket was a happy accident. The large basket measures about 12” long, 8” wide, and 12” tall. The small basket measures 5” long, 3” wide, and 5” tall.

Fabric Bin

Sewing your own fabric bin is easy when you use orphan quilt blocks! Learn how to sew them together with a lining.

Sewing your own little fabric bin is a great way to use your quilt blocks. Keeping the quilt blocks the same size is the key to making this tutorial work. Mix and match the blocks, or coordinate them depending on where you will be using the fabric bin.

Chicken Feed Bucket

Sew your chicken feed bag into a super cute fabric bag. Great for holding fabric, yarn, ribbon, thread or anything else in the house!

The first project sewn together is a fabric bucket style. It’s perfect for storing fabric bundles, yarn, thread, notions…whatever really!

Rectangle Basket with Wire Edge

Sew Can She – Get everything organized with this darling rectangular fabric basket with wire edge that is so sturdy it can stand up by itself! Yes, you can sew a professional looking fabric basket using easy to find supplies – no one will guess that you made it yourself.

Fabric Storage Baskets

Sew Can She – This free sewing tutorial will show you how to sew storage baskets out of fabric. Organize your home (and life!) with these fabric storage bins. They fit perfectly in Ikea cubby shelves, and fold up when not in use!

No Interface Storage Basket

Jezze Blog – Play around with heights and widths for different uses; make the lining and outer from the same fabric, just doubling the height measurement for the larger lining piece. This fabric basket is an easy project to make.

Circle Bottom Bucket with Binding

Ric Rac- There are probably a gazillion versions of these circle bottom bucket floating around in the craft cyberspace, so these are the way I make mine. They are super useful for little things in the sewing room or for hair ties and stuff !

Custom Fabric Covered Boxes

I have been in dire need of some new containers for the built-in shelves in our living room to hold things like DVD’s and remotes, but I wasn’t wanting to spend a fortune on them. It occurred to me that a diaper box had precisely the dimensions I was looking for, so I determined myself to figure out a way to gussy them up with custom fabric covered boxes to suit my needs!

Springform Bucket Tutorial

Let’s make springy fabric buckets. A free tutorial.

Organizer Basket

This organizer basket is a perfect size to put together 16 spools of Gutermann 250m
threads for a gift. (Oh I just had a vision of this basket filled with spools
and one big handle in the middle! That would make a cute gift, wouldn’t it?)

Woven Basket

Little woven baskets out of 2-1/2″ batik strips. These baskets are often made out of paper such as magazines, newspaper, maps, potato chip bags etc. but I wanted to use fabric. I used interfacing to stiffen the strips and make them easy to weave.

Fabric Basket

This fabric basket has 3 layers. You can choose to make it out of 3 different fabrics for a really-cool pieced look, or you can use 1 fabric. The link below is for the 3 fabric pieced look.

Fabric Basket with Handles

The basket with handles are not too hard to make, and you get such a feeling of accomplishment from making something so useful!

Canvas Drop Cloth Folded Bin

A fabric basket made with a canvas drop cloth! Wouldn’t it be fun to add some embellishments to a basket like this? You could stamp a pattern into the canvas, or embroider a design or label on the side. Bonus points if you make it with a USED drop cloth!

Tied Top Baskets

Follow these instructions to make yourself some beautiful tied top fabric baskets to store all sorts of treasures.

Scrappy Squares Buckets with Handles

Use your scraps to make this simple and cute bucket with handles. You can add more personalization when choosing the fabric and adding names.

Simple Fabric Basket

You’ll need 3 different fabrics. Two for the outside, one for the inside. Try to match them, but they shouldn’t be too perfect together, otherwise the result will be boring. 

Scrappy Fabric Basket Tutorial

Today I’m going to show you how to make your own Scrappy Fabric Basket, using small pieces of fabric from your stash. Measuring 6.5″ x 4.5″ x 4″ (16.5cm x 11.5cm x 10cm), this handy sized basket is sturdy enough to stand up by itself.

Fat Quarter Fabric Basket with Open Handles

It’s a cute customized basket, great for storing almost anything. Craft supplies preferred. 

The sides can flex out depending on its contents…it is a fabric basket after all. But, as I mentioned earlier, you can repress it in shape if it gets out of whack, or just leave it rounded and don’t fuss with pressing it at all.

They are such pretty things. I have been using them to store WIP projects on my sewing desk.

RicRac edge Bucket

Fabric baskets are a great way to store items around the house and are easy to make. This tutorial is for a square basket but you can easily adjust the size by enlarging it on a copier.

Easter Basket with long handles

I made these Easter Baskets with leftover fabric from another project, so they helped me destash as well. And I love that they’re boyish without having silly commercial graphics on them. Hopefully we’ll be able to use these for a few years.

Gathered Round Basket

This is an easy project and the baskets can be made in any size, are fully reversible,  and are useful for so many things.

Nested Fabric Buckets

A set of three nested fabric buckets to mix-and-match at will. I’m even thinking the littlest size would make a sweet handbag for the spring, don’t you?

Cute Basket with Handles

I think this will be the perfect thing to put all of my sewing scraps in until I have enough to sort. I really don’t want to put scraps away every time I get one or two, so now I’ll be able to get a good collection and just do a bunch at once, but still have some kind of order to my craft area. 🙂 Looks like it’s already time to sort my scraps.

Round Bottom Storage Buckets

I love seeing fabric around the house, and I love making useful things out of fabric. Luckily these round bottomed storage buckets hit both points! 

Bike Basket Tutorial

This bike basket worked on both my boys’ bikes–they are both Huffy bikes, and the bar across the handlebars where it velcro’s on is about 9-10″ long.

Folded top edge Basket

These buckets make great storage solutions. You can use them to store smellies in the bathroom, socks and pants in the bedroom, crafts supplies in your studio or just put them on your shelves to pretty it up!.

The buckets are reversible, can be used with edge rolled up or down, depending on your mood and they can be stacked when not in use.

Bike Buckets

My husband and I were doing some tune ups on my daughter’s bike earlier this spring – you know, new tires, paint the handlebars, fix the seat, fun stuff. So, when we were out tire shopping I saw the cute bike baskets at the store. I was like “oh, we have to get her a basket, it would be so fun” and he’s like “you should just make one”. So here we go!

Basket with Dividers for your car

I drive a minivan without any storage in between the seats. It drives me crazy. I’ve been using an old shipping box that was convenient to grab before a road trip, but I knew I had to class it up a little. This bucket with dividers fits behind the seat and is the perfect spot to collect everything.

Drawstring Bag

This basket is essentially a drawstring bag joined to a fabric basket with handles. It’s not hard to make, but it is quite a long tutorial. The finished dimensions – 7″ x 4″ x 6″ (w x d x h), with the drawstring section adding roughly another 6″ to the height.

Nesting Bins

These nesting bins are equally cute & functional! I don’t know about y’all, but I’m always on the lookout for a cute way to bring a little more organization to my crafty chaos. These would also make an adorable baby shower gift – I can just see them filled with tiny baby socks or as a diaper caddy on a changing table. So many uses!! I was able to make this 3 bin set in just a little over an hour. This is a great project for beginners – If you can sew a straight line, you can make these!!

Fussy Foldover Basket

This tutorial was supposed to be for a basket with a fussy cut pocket, but when my first try seemed a bit tall, I tried folding it over. I liked the look and it gave it a lot more stability. So, the Fussy Foldover Basket was born!

Deep Dish Basket

Super cute deep dish basket featuring ric rac top edging and a ribbon tie. Perfect for any occasion.

Berry Baskets

Make a fabric berry basket. Now before you get all “You can’t put berries in there! Are you crazy?!” on me, just step back and think of all the storage possibilities!!! And don’t stop at my few size suggestions, play and make your own…lots!

Comma Basket

Comma Basket! I just love the bright colors mixed with the natural linen. And piping! This was my first time using piping and I love the finished look it gives the basket and pockets! It has pockets all the way around it on the outside. This basket finishes at 11.5 in tall x 9 in round.

Floppy Fabric Basket

I have so many small bits and bobs scattered around my studio, with no real home. This is when I came up with the idea of making a ‘basket‘ for them to snuggle up in. I wanted it to be stable enough to hold my threads and haberdashery, but still have that pliable fabric quality to it. 

Fat Quarter Trays

This particular project is fantastic for scraps, as well! These little fabric trays can be whipped up in no time and are great for corralling small items, such as jewelry, loose change & keys, or the obvious: sewing supplies!

Fabric Basket with inside pocket

Store even more inside your fabric basket with inside pockets. This tutorial will show you basic construction and how to add those pockets inside.

WANT TO REMEMBER THIS? SAVE THE FABRIC BINS AND BUCKETS TUTORIALS TO YOUR FAVORITE DIY PINTEREST BOARD!

What do you stuff in your fabric basket? 

---