Easy DIY Leather Basket

While perhaps not budget-friendly, leather only improves with age and this beautifully handmade basket will develop a wonderful patina over time. The other advantage to making and investing in this project is that it can float to any room in your home: Store magazines beside your sofa, pile pillows into it under the side table in your guest bedroom, keep towels and toilet paper easily accessible in your bathroom, or toss all your winter scarves into it for chic closet storage. This basket goes a long way!

SUPPLIES

1-inch heavyweight natural cowhide leather strips/ straps, cut to the following lengths:

four 31-inch pieces (inside width)

three 36-inch pieces (inside length)

three 62-inch pieces (outside wraparound)

two 15-inch pieces (handles) (see Tips)

58 large, steel, double-cap rivets, nickel-plated (see Tips)

TOOLS

Yardstick or soft tape measure

Pencil

Self-healing cutting mat

Size 4, ⁵⁄₃₂-inch, round-drive steel leather punch

Rubber mallet

Rivet setter

Rivet anvil

Scissors

1. All the following marks should be centered, widthwise, on the leather, ½ inch from each edge, down the whole length of the leather strap. Starting with the inside width leather strips, working from left to right, pencil a small X at the following inch measurements: ½, 4, 7½, 11, 15½, 20, 23½, 27, 30½.

2. Next, mark the hole placement for the inside length leather strips. Working from left to right, pencil a small X at the following inch measurements: ½, 4, 7½, 11, 15¾, 20¼, 25, 28½, 32, 35½.

3. Mark all the hole placements for the outside wraparound leather strips. Working from left to right, pencil a small X at the following measurements: ½, 5, 9½, 13½, 18, 22½, 27, 31, 35½, 40, 44, 48½, 53, 57½, 61½.

4. From the outside wraparound strips that we already marked, take only 1 piece and pencil an X at the following inch measurements for attaching the handles: 2¾, 7¼, 33¼, 37¾.

5. Mark the hole placement for the handle strips. Pencil an X ½ inch from both ends, on both pieces of leather.

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