Archive for the Category ◊ Serving Baskets ◊

• Sunday, September 21st, 2008

This picture shows both the small and large round trays.  Both are woven of the walnut brown wicker.  The larger tray is approximately 1 and 7/8″ wide and 1/4″ deep.  (47mm wide and 6mm deep)  The smaller tray is approximately 1 and 1/2″ wide and also 1/4″ deep.  (38mm wide and 6mm deep)

While I love how the smaller tray bottom is woven, the larger one looks a little uneven toward the outer edge.  Definitely a good candidate for an inner serving tray!  I must have been distracted by a good movie during this weave…  I’ll have to try again!

• Sunday, September 21st, 2008

This picture shows the small round trays in both walnut brown and natural colors.  They are each approximately 1 and 1/4″ wide, with a depth of about 1/4″. (38mm wide and 6mm deep)

I think the walnut brown has a really nice, even weave and I will probably display it empty.  The natural off-white color seems perfect for a vanity tray.  Every miniaturist that I know has made some perfume bottles from fancy beads, and I think this is a great way to show them off!  Hmmm, it would also look beautiful in my daughter’s bakery, full of cookies or petit fours!  She ends up with most of the natural colored wicker pieces…

• Sunday, September 21st, 2008

This small serving tray is woven in the walnut brown linen thread.  It is approximately 1 and 1/2″ wide and about 1/4″ deep.  (38mm wide and 6mm deep)

I really love the wicker trays.  This one is proudly displaying my new cheese and crackers plate.  The bottom weave on this tray came out really nice, so I will post another picture that shows it off.

• Sunday, September 21st, 2008

This is a round, walnut brown basket with no handle.  It is approximately 3/4″ wide and 5/16″ deep. (19mm wide and 8mm deep)

Here I placed a vintage porcelain earing into the basket to simulate a flower arrangement.  I’m definitely going to work on some colorful flowers for display here.  This is also a great basket for the table, perhaps full of dinner rolls or fruit.  As a storage basket, it could hold sewing notions or other odds and ends.  The nice open top would show off whatever contents you provide!

• Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Here is one of the black wicker baskets I have completed.  It is tough to get a good picture of the weave on this dark color.  I like this basket as a serving or a storage basket.  The black color is great for offsetting the colorful contents, so maybe a basket of tortilla chips or shiny red apples?  It’s a good size for a colorful plant.  I think that the black is a more modern look compared to the more traditional browns.  Naturally,  it would look terrific in a Halloween setting!

This square basket is approximately 7/8″ wide and 9/16″ tall.  (22mm wide and 14mm tall)  It’s small enough to be a tabletop basket in one inch scale and a large storage or planter in half scale.

• Sunday, September 10th, 2006


This small, round fruit basket was woven in natural wicker. It is 3/4″ wide and 7/16″ high. The handle is 1/2″ tall, making the basket about 1″ tall overall. (20mm wide and 11mm high, plus 14mm tall handle)

As usual, the trim braid and handle gave me a bit of trouble, but I still like this little basket. I think the light color sets off the contents nicely (in this case small styrofoam balls colored to look like lemons and oranges.) I have since worked out a thinner braid to trim the small baskets, and I will try that on the next version of this basket.

I think this basket would make a sweet little Easter basket as well, and I will try it in a pastel color someday… The list of baskets I want to make grows longer!

• Friday, August 11th, 2006


This is a square serving basket woven with butterscotch thread over butterscotch spokes. It is about 1 3/8″ wide and 3/8″ high. (30mm square and 7mm high)

This is another one of my favorites, possibly because there are no lopsided handles to mar the view. It is a bit deep for a tray, and puts me in the mind of a casserole basket. I think it will take a 1″ pie nicely, and I have some Fimo cookies that would line up nicely inside. I have a sweet little checked “napkin” for the basket, but I like the weave so well, it hasn’t made it in there yet. Obviously, I need 4 more of these, at least!

• Friday, August 11th, 2006


This round basket is done in natural wicker and measures about 1/2″ wide and tall. (12mm wide and 11mm tall)

This is really a wicker cup, intended to hold lollipops in my daughter’s 1″ scale bakery. It could also hold a small potted plant, a jelly jar, tapered candles, or pens and pencils. In fact, I think it would make a great desk set, along with a blotter and a business card holder (could I weave a stapler???) This basket could definitely be in a 1/2″ scale scene, and is the only one I have made so far that I think could be in 1/4″ scene (as a bushel basket?) I will be posting a taller version that makes a nice flower vase as well.