Quilting a Round Bottomed Fabric Basket
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I am thinking it would be assembled like a purse or bag. In those cases the units are usually quilted before assembly. If your basket is already assembled I think it would be very hard to machine quilt but you may be able to manipulate it enough to hand quilt it.
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I've done it. The bag called for the bottom to be quite rigid so recommended using interfacing plus two layers of batting. I had to quilt a circle then sew it into the tube of the bag. It was sewn with the seams to the outside of the bag and then binding was added to the raw edges. I used cross hatching with the lines quite close together. It looked lovely and was fairly solid. BUT I had to sew the binding by hand because I couldn't get my sewing machine to sew through all the layers. If I made it again I would cut the circle larger, draw an inner circle 1/2" smaller than original size then only quilt to inner circle. It should then be easier to thin out outer circle and sew binding on by machine. Hope that helps sorry no picture as I gave the bag as a gift.
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you quilt before the sides are sewn. Either as completely separate pieces or attach 2 edges to bottom, quilt as flat and then sew the sides. Only way to quilt it when sewn together is if it is very thin and you can slide it all under your presser foot and swiggle it around - that is way too hard!!
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