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Media Press Crochet Hemp Basket
Recently, I found myself strolling at Ace Hardware store more often than usual. I used to go to craft shops to get my craft supplies but now seems like I found an “auxiliary” place to buy… the HARDWARE shop!!! I bought a roll of manila rope from my local Ace Hardware store and made a hemp basket by coiling the rope with yarn using crochet method.
If you have been a facebook fans of Craft Passion, I have asked a question a few hours ago about what can you make with the rope, yarn and a crochet hook, and this is my answer: a hemp basket. Sara has had the closest answer and many of you guessed it right… basket, bingo!!!! I also specially like the answer from Lorraine and Alison, they said plant hanger, coasters, hot pads for the table/counter top, Dimple H said door mat, Yusi said table mat, yes, they can be done with this method too. There are many other creative ideas from the answers, **love them all** I am going to explore them out with it possibilities if time permits, like build a house as Gillian mentioned… may be with a huge roll of rope, who knows… there is no limit when it comes to creativity. I enjoyed reading through all your answers, you are simply awesome!!!!
Check it out how I did it after the jump!!!!
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Such a cool an nice project !!!! Thank you for sharing !
Thank you, Miss Butterfly
I like what you’ve done, very nice.
That is just so cool.
Thank you, Faith and Dimple
There are other possibility like what you have said, I love your ideas too!!!
Hahaha!It is really like the one I tought to as you posted the yarns!!It’s simly Wonderful!!
Love this basket! I am pinning to my list!
Love it and thank you for sharing pattern!!truly appreciate it:) Good day! xoxo
I am so gunna do this! Erin Schilling Berentschot
That is awesome & look easy 2make.
Beautiful, very good!!!
This is a beautiful project that I am excited to try, since I love crocheting. What better than making something out of the box, like a basket that I can make for a special friend, parent, child, with things they love and they can keep and use for many things. Great project.
Yes, easy job to those with some crochet experience
ay çok güzeeeeeel çokda kolay siz bitanesiniz
Translation (by Google):
months so you can easily bitanesiniz güzeeeeeel çokda
i love picnic and this project is so beautiful!!it seems so easy!!great idea!!
Wow! This is such a tedious job! You are simply amazing with such a precise tutorial.
THis is such a wonderful looking project! I love baskets and have a special place for one such as this. Thank you.
Great looking tutorial! I shared your link at http://creativityunmasked.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/six-for-saturday-or-sunday.html and I think this will be a perfect one for me to try for a basket of goodies in the guest bathroom.
A Beautiful tutorial, after several years I started to crochet again and this is a great project, very well explained, a million thanks for the idea.
Everything you make just blows me away. This is gorgeous and so creative! I’ll be linking, thanks so much for sharing yet another incredibly detailed tutorial with us… your how-tos are my favorite!
Thanks, Rachel…. I love being featured in OnePrettyThing… as always!!!
Thank you for posting this tutorial! i have crocheted a basket out of only hemp string, but never done something like this… very cool.
Thanks, Catarina
Something new yet old to you, yay!!!
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I saw this on craft gawker and started it last night. I love it!!!!!
Glad that you love, Liz Lewis Joseph
I found the rope at my local Ace store and started crocheting, BUT I can’t get away from the stench coming from the rope! It smells like motor oil or some kind of solvent. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Can the rope be washed successfully? Any ideas? Thank you in advance!!!
It is coated with some oil since it is meant for outdoor. Perhaps yours has heavier coat than the one I bought, but the smell will go off after while.
Awesome project!! I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for posting!!!
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Wow beautiful and creative
Thank you for posting this!! I have started a project in Ravelry for it and am working on it right now!
One thing about how to work around the rope: If you know how to crochet cast on in knitting…this will produce the same results. I couldnt follow along with your directions and just did it like a crochet cast on. It’s working nicely and looks like yours. I think it might be working it backwards from yours tho.
Again, thank you! The ladies on my Christmas list thank you too!
I am attempting to follow the pattern, but cannot grasp the instructions. I think between row 6 and 7 another row should be added with {56}. Is anyone else having trouble understanding the pattern directions? I have been crocheting for years and I can sort of make it up as I go along and come up with the right amount of stitches for each row. But the actual instructions do not make sense to me. Thank you for any help or advice!
I finally understood the numbering of the pattern, but I could never get it to work. It only made a flat mat. I had to add some decreases to get the basket to curve upwards and form a basket. I added rows and pulled them out several times before adding the decreases. This pattern did not work for me and it is written unlike any other pattern I have ever seen. I have been crocheting for at least 10 years and have seen lots of patterns. If you are planning on using this pattern – beware that it is confusing and does not work.
Perhaps you have missed out something…. can you show me a picture to see if I can help to find out your problem?
I do not have a picture. Following your pattern as best I could I only made a round flat mat. I pulled out some rows, modified it by adding some decreases and finally was able to get a basket shape. This pattern did not make sense to me, but thanks for your reply.
I wish that I knew what make you confused to make the mistake, at least I can improvise or explain further. This pattern is correct and workable and it is how the basket was made and created.
My trouble began with R2. I worked all stitches in the ch space throughout the pattern. To get 16 total stitches on R2 I *sc ch1 sc ch1* in each ch sp from the previous row. Here is how I progressed…
R3 *sc ch2 in ch space, sc ch2 sc ch2 in ch space* Repeat around (24)
R4 *sc ch 1 in ch space (twice), sc ch1 sc ch1 in ch space* Repeat around (32)
R5 *sc ch 2 in ch space (3 times alternating ch1 and ch2), sc ch1 or 2 alternating, sc ch2 in ch space* Repeat around (40)
R6 *sc ch 2 in ch space (4 times), sc ch2 sc ch2 in ch space* Repeat around (48)
R7 *sc ch1 in ch space (2 times), sc ch1 sc ch 1 in ch space* Repeat around (64)
R8 *sc ch2 in ch space (3 times alternating ch1 and ch2), sc ch1 or 2 alternating, sc ch 1 or 2 alternating in ch space* Repeat around (80)
…and so on. Maybe I did it wrong, but it was the only way I could figure out to get the right amount of stitches for each row. I could never understand the “repeat 8 or 16 times”. Instead I divided the total stitch count for each row by the 8 or 16 times to repeat to figure out how many stitches I should do and how many to increase in. The whole idea is good and the finished product is nice. This pattern is just unlike any I have done before and I was very confused. Then mine never curled upwards to form a basket, but was a flat mat instead. If I had made it bigger it would have been a nice rug/mat. Maybe you can include some ideas on how you created this pattern. The pictures were very valuable and helpful!
I am still trying to figure out this pattern. Why on round 2 does it say “*sc on next st, ch1*, repeat * 8 times, mm. {16}” If there were 8 stitches on round 1 and you sc in each stitch 8 times won’t there be 8 stitches on round 2 and not 16?
sc counts as 1 stitch, ch counts as another stitch, so total is 2 stitches, if 2 stitches repeat 8 times that is 2 x 8 which is equal to 16 stitches, it is just simple mathematics
Hope you can figure it out soon 
Thanks! That helps a lot. I thought I was supposed to only crochet in the ch spaces. How about in round 3… it says “*sc on next ch sp, ch2*, repeat* 8 times, mm. {24}” If I have 16 ch spaces from round 2 how can I repeat 8 times to get 24?
Actually I think I just figured it out. The ch count as stitches too. The sc and the ch add up to the number at the end in brackets. The number in brackets is not just how many sc there are on each row. That is what had me so confused. Thanks again for your help!
Glad that you finally break through the “myth”!!! Happy crochet!!!
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I MUST learn to crochet. Been sayin’ that for a few years now, but WOW, if I can one day make a B.E.A.UTIFUL basket like this it’s totally worth picking up the skill.
It is a beautiful basket! I do have a couple of questions please, I’m having difficulty understanding the instructions. Are we to work around up to the stitch marker on every row? Or are there some rows we don’t go all the way to the stitch marker? Also, do you mean for us to count each chain in a row as a stitch that you include in the total stitch count? After going through the first several lines of the pattern, I do see that there are errors either in the instructions or in the stitch counts.
For instance, in row 4, the instructions basically say to put a sc, ch 1, sc in EACH chain stitch. (You say to sc, ch1 in next, sc, ch1 in same so that means 2 sc, ch1s in the next ch st.) But that will give you way more than 32 stitches.
In Row 5, if I go by the number of stitches you say I should have in row 4, there is no way to repeat the instructions “8 times”. There aren’t enough stitches in row 4 to work into that many times. Do you mean work it once and then REPEAT 7 more times or maybe do that 8 times TOTAL?
In Row 6, you say *sc on next ch st, ch2*, repeat* 16 times [48]. There are 24 chains in row 5 (if worked as the instructions say). So if we work a sc and 2 chains in every chain stitch from row 5 (as written), the total stitches if we count chains would be (72). Do you mean to only work in the first 16 chains and stop that row or do you mean to skip some chains?
Thanks for clarifying! I tried charting it and it doesn’t work charted the way it is written unless you mean not to go all the way to the stitch marker on each row, or unless the instructions are not exact.
Hi B.D. the pattern works around each round till the stitch marker. Basically, the sc stitch is working on the ch stitch and ch space. I should have put a remark to make the pattern clearer. Chain space means the space between two sc that link by chain stitches, it could be 1 ch or 2 ch stitches.
For Round 4, the sc,ch,sc work on the chain space of round 3 (2 chain stitches). There is 4 stitches to repeat 8 times, so the total stitch at the end of Round 4 is 32 stitches. Out of the 32 stitches, the 16 stitches are chain stitch.
For Round 5, instead of sc,ch,sc,ch as 1 group in round 4, now you increase a chain stitch in the group to become sc,2ch,sc,ch (become 5 stitches), so 5 x 8 = 40 stitches. You will have enough chain stitch to perform. There are 24 chain stitches out from the total 40 stitches, but only 16 chain spaces.
For Round 6, again, it should be ch space when it come to the 2ch stitches on round 5.
I hope this explanation clear your doubt.
Thanks for bringing up this matter so me to clarify. I will amend the pattern to make it clearer.
Thanks again.
After studying the pattern a bit more, I THINK (I may very well be wrong ;o) ), what you mean is to work into the next or same chain SPACE (whether it is a space made up of 2 chains or 1 chain between each sc), rather than just the next chain stitch. That would make it come out correct. The number of repeats – you must mean work that many TOTAL. I have charted it out this way and it works this way with your number of total stitches.
So that’s how I’m working it anyway. 
Thanks! We must have been posting at the same time.
lol… exactly!!!
Thank you for your post. I shared a link to it on Try it – Like it
http://tryit-likeit.com/entries/create/yarn-and-rope-tote
Is there a way to block this basket? I finished it and held the rope in the best shape possible as I was going, but it is all wonky – not a perfectly shaped basket as shown in your photo. Because the stitches holding it together are cotton yarn – it “gives”. The rope is stronger to hold its shape than the cotton yarn is to keep it a certain shape. Thank you!
I didn’t block the basket and it stays up perfectly well as shown in the picture. The yarn is to bring and form the rope is this shape, it can’t help it up. The basket is standing well because it is “stacking” itself on each round.
Thank you! I did exactly as the pattern stated and mine is definitely not standing up. The rope rings are stacked on top of each other but it does not stand up right. Any suggestions?
I am not sure, B.D.
Are you using the same rope I recommended?
nice
Is there any way to crochet this as a square basket? Or would the rope not allow that? Thank you; this pattern is gorgeous!
Not in square as the rope can’t make the right angle.
I followed your instructions, and it’s come out 6″ instead do eleven…I would like to ask if You can help me with some instructions in order to add another 6″….
Thank you
I need to see your basket before I can know what the actual problem came from. Mind to send me a photo via contact form?
Hi Ruth,
Got both your pictures, thanks.
Looks like the rope you are using is too thin compare to mine. This is the main reason why the size is small. In order to increase the size of the basket, you need to increase the base diameter by crocheting a few more rounds. It involves more intensive pattern design. Another way is that you can use multiple strand for the rope but I am not sure if they can stay up right as the rope you are using is soft.
I see how to do the first stitch with the yarn under the rope, but after that, the yarn is above the rope so what do you do then? i don’t get it. A video would be nice.
Bellissimo! Proverò a farlo anche io.
Translation (by Google):
Bellissimo! I’ll try to do it myself.
Hi- thank you so much for this pattern- I am really looking forward to trying this project- actually if it turns out as well as the one in your picture I may like to make lots of them and sell them… Is that ok? A bit of a premature request as I have not tried it yet. Also I am wondering if you or someone could estimate the length of yarn needed and a recommendation as to the type of yarn or twine to use? Thank you again!
Hello craftpassion! I love this crochet hemp basket and I have shared it with my Facebook community page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crochet-Cricket/429645740430059. Thank you
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