Soap and tape basket

Crafts made of soap can be a great gift. The production process is very simple and creative at the same time, because using ribbons, their different shades and widths, crafts are made original and very delicate. And thanks to the basis of soap, this souvenir will be fragrant.

How to make a basket of soap?

Before making a basket of soap, you should prepare everything you need:

• oval soap or round soap;
• tapes of satin about 0.5 cm wide (the wider the ribbon, the better it will cover the base of soap and will not form lumens);
• pins with beads at the ends.

If you have simple pins with a rounded eye, you can pre-thread beads or pebbles on them to decorate the basket. Now we consider step by step the process of making a basket of soap with our own hands.

1. The first step is to prepare the foundation. To do this, pins stick around the edge of the soap. From the edge we retreat about half a centimeter. First we insert four pins on opposite edges. Then we insert the rest between them at equal distances.
2. If you plan to decorate your basket with a lot of flowers, sticking pins can not be very deep, then the height of the rims will be greater.
3. This is how the blanks for soap and ribbon baskets look. Pay attention: from the bottom (where there is the base of the basket) from the edge we retreat a little more.
4. The next stage of the master class of making a basket of soap will be fixing the tape. We take out one of the pins and return it to its place, at the same time, fix the tape.
5. Next, you need to form a basket of soap and braid. Begin to gently feed the tape from the bottom up between the pins. In doing so, you need to braid, as if doing eight.
6. The side is ready. Consider how to make the edges for a basket of soap. As soon as you finish braiding the side, without cutting the ribbon, we start wrapping it with pins in a circle.
7. To the edges of the basket of soap and tapes had a complete look, should be braided into two or three layers. Needles can not be seen at all.
8. To basket of soap and ribbons seemed more realistic, along the central line of the side, we also have pins at the same distance.
9. They will be braided in exactly the same way as the upper edges. To make more decorative edges, pins can be stuck not in a straight line, but in the form of a wave.
10. Now let's dwell on the decoration. The handle can be made of wire: we braid it with a tape overlapping and bend. Then insert the ends of the wire into the base of the soap.
11. The central part is adorned at our discretion. It can be small artificial flowers, decorations from ribbons, bows or other decorative elements.
12. The main part of the basket of soap and tapes can also be decorated in many ways. On top of the main tape to attach decorative braid, braid the top row of pins and tie a bow. Here your imagination is unlimited.

Baskets of soap and ribbons - a simplified version

The principle of operation remains the same. For convenience, we will use a paper template.

1. Cut out the pattern about half a centimeter less than the size of soap.
2. Fold it in four and make at the same distance marks, where there should be pins.
3. We make incisions in the places of marks.
4. Fix the template using two pins in the center.
5. We paste on the marked places pins on the perimeter.
6. Fix the end of the tape, pre-bending it.
7. Next, we begin to fly the soap with a tape on a familiar technique.
8. Due to the proximity of the pins and the wider width of the tape, you immediately get something similar to the edges.
9. The end of the tape is fixed with the help of a lower pin.
10. We make a pen of wire and beads.
11. The basket is ready!

A cute basket can be made of paper or sewed from fabric .