Pottery Barn Basket Knock Off

I am excited to show my Pottery Barn Basket Knock Off! On another Blog seventhirtythree they are having a Knock It Off Contest

And I wanted to join in! I saw this basket with burlap at pottery barn and loved it. The first picture is from Pottery Barn and the second picture is my knock off

Here is how I made it:

I was wandering thru DI(thrift store) and found this snowman basket. It has the perfect basket for what I needed and it only cost $1.

So I took off the top and handle and had the basket I needed.

I bought a yard of burlap – about $2. The piece I ended up using for the basket was 24″x 22″

Using my glue gun I put a line of glue around the entire inside of the bottom of the basket and then adhered the burlap. Because burlap has many holes I used a pen to push down the fabric.

I then went around the entire basket making folds in the burlap. As I made a fold I would put a dot of hot glue under it to help keep it down.

I wanted to use a bigger thicker rope for this but I was making this in the middle of Superbowl. I asked my hubby if he could grab me some of his rope and he rolled his eyes and told me to ask him after the Superbowl. I guess our priorities are kinda different 🙂 Anyway I wanted to finish right then so I grabbed some Jute I had and doubled it and tied it around the basket. Once that was done I went around and trimmed off the extra burlap and tried to make it pretty.

And though it isn’t exactly like the Pottery Barn basket I am very happy with how mine turned out!

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Comments

JULIE says

August 15, 2011 at 6:02 pm

thanks for posting! super helpful. great di find!!!!

- Summer @ Summer Scraps says
  
  April 15, 2012 at 4:48 pm
  
  Thanks Julie! I am glad you liked it.
  
Karina Wetzel says

April 15, 2012 at 4:45 pm

This turned out so cute Summer :)!! I love doing knock offs!

- Summer @ Summer Scraps says
  
  April 15, 2012 at 4:53 pm
  
  Thanks Karina! Knock offs are a lot of fun.
  
Angela says

June 7, 2012 at 4:24 pm

You did a great job on this!! Thanks for the tutorial, I like going through thrift stores to see what I can find too 🙂

- Summer @ Summer Scraps says
  
  June 8, 2012 at 1:36 am
  
  Thanks Angela! I am glad you like the tutorial. I just LOVE thrift store shopping.
  
Mel the Crafty Scientist says

May 19, 2013 at 10:45 pm

Love your blog and this project with jute – so fun and such an awesome knockoff! Just wanted to let you know I featured you in my roundup of jute craft projects here. Feel free to check it out if you want and hope you like it! : )

-Mel the Crafty Scientist