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DIY Boho Tassel Basket

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January 31, 2018

Make Your Own Tassel Basket

diy tasseled basket

There’s one thing you should know about kids… their crap has a migratory pattern of their own. Things move from the playroom to the girls room to the bathroom to the family room to the kitchen table. Every night before bed, I return the obvious things to their home and then once a quarter, I have to really baton down the hatches and bring things *really* back to their rightful homes. Until all the things can click their heels and go home, I grabbed a pretty tasseled basket (shown below) for our family room. I don’t want to encourage too many toys to end up here, but it happens.

storage for kids stuff

I loved that tassel basket so much that I decided I could *EASILY* DIY my own. This was one of those projects that actually wasn’t any cheaper, but it was super easy and it meant that I could get exactly the colors that I wanted. (Materials list at the end of the post!)

tasseled basket diy

Step 1. Basket

I found an $8 basket at Homegoods that was perfect. It was round… it had nice little handles… super similar to my inspiration basket.

plain basket from homegoods

Step 2. Raffia

I ordered these ones (affiliate) from Amazon and used the entire roll of both of them. You could make skinnier tassels and you wouldn’t use as many, but honestly I like the heft of the ones I made so wouldn’t go much smaller.

rolls of raffia

Step 3. Make the Tassels

Tassels are SUPER easy to make. I figured out how long I wanted mine to be and cut out a piece of cardboard that was the same length. Grab your raffia and start wrapping. For my tassels, I wrapped my raffia around the cardboard 30 times.

wrapping raffia around cardboard

Cut a short length of raffia, thread it under the wrapped raffia and tie a tight knot around the raffia as close to the top as you can. Do not trim the ends… you will use the excess to tie the tassel onto your basket.

tie a knot around raffia

Slide the raffia off of the cardboard. (Because you’d tied the raffia together, the loops should stay together in one clump.)

slide raffia off cardboard

Cut 24 inches of raffia (either the same color or a contrasting color depending upon your preference) and wrap this around the entire clump of raffia about 3/4″ from the end where you tied your first knot. Tie the ends off and trim the excess.

wrap end of raffia clump

With sharp scissors, cut the raffia loops opposite from your wrapped end to make the tassel. You’ve just made tassel #1.

trim ends to make tassel
trim ends to make tassel

My basket required about 20 tassels of each color (2 full rolls of my raffia). If you have a larger basket you can either make more tassels OR… make smaller shorter tassels to stretch your two rolls of raffia.

pile of tassels next to basket

Step 4. Attach Tassels to Basket

Remember those loose ends you left behind when you tied that first knot on the tassel? Now’s the time for those to shine. I was able to thread one end of one tail of raffia through the top row of my basket. I wrapped it around the top row a few times and repeated in the opposite direction with the other tail, before tying these two together to secure the tassel. Repeat for alllll the remaining tassels.

attach tassels to basket tie tassels onto basket

I mentioned on my Instagram stories, but when my mom came to visit a couple of weeks ago, she taught the kids to knit, so this new tassel basket helps wrangle all the balls of yarn that they are officially not using anymore since she’s gone home.

DIY tasseled basket basket with DIY tassels

Materials

(Affiliate links included for your convenience.)

  • Blue Raffia
  • Green Raffia
  • Round seagrass basket similar to this
  • Scissors

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This basket was super easy to make... I loved that I could customize the colors to match our decor!

XO Charlotte

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