Lace baskets have been appealing to me lately. I've tatted some and then had an exchange with someone who crochets. You can see the results of that here.

I finished up a tatting project today and part of it involved a small crocheted blossom. That inspired me to crochet more but as I looked for some patterns, I saw a basket in an Annie's Attic leaflet for one of their famous dolls. I decided to try it out.

I crocheted it in a smaller thread and with a smaller hook so it did turn out smaller than the one done in size 10 thread. I used a Venus thread, size 40 and a size 10 steel hook. In all the 40+ years that I crocheted, I never used beads until now.

Hmmm...there was a tooth fairy doll that was quite elegant that I made for my granddaughter and I know beads were involved somewhere but I don't remember where or how. Maybe it was only on the tooth fairy bag and perhaps I sewed them on after the crochet was done. With this basket however, I loaded the beads onto the thread before I started crocheting. It was really quite easy. I'm not sure I like the way the handle was treated. I think the beads would look better either in the center of handle or on both sides of the center.

I added the thimble for scale. You can see it's quite tiny. What will I do with it? I have no idea! I just like miniatures. I could make some in red or white and put a single Hershey Kiss in each one for gifts. The bottom might be too small in diameter even for that! At any rate, it was a fun exercise. I'll have to look for a bobbin lace basket pattern now.