the easiest crochet basket ever

This time I decided to share the pattern for the easiest basket ever :) The thing I like most about it is that you can make tons of different baskets using this idea: by changing the color of the yarn or change the stitches in the row with the contrasting yarn, make the sides longer or shorter and so on.

The easiest crochet basket ever:

Hook: 3mm
Yarn: 300m in 100g
100% acrylic

ch - chain
dc - double crochet
hdc – half double crochet
sl st - slip stitch
(x) - number of stitches in a row

I used 2 colors: brown (color A) and green (color B).

The bottom:

(with color A)

1. ch 27

2. 1 hdc in the 3rd ch from the hook and in every ch, ch2, turn (25 hdc)

3. – 13. 1 hdc in every hdc (25)

Now make sl sts around the rectangle: start with the shorter side and *make sl st in every row and in between (you should get 23 sl sts), on the longer side make sl st in every hdc (you should get 25 sl st)* and finally repeat the same (from * to*) for the remaining sides.

It’s time to make the sides. Without cutting off the thread start at the long side:

Longer side:

1. (with color A, in front loops only) 1 hdc in every loop, ch 2, turn (25)

2. – 5. (in both loops) 1 hdc in every hdc, ch2, turn (25)

6. (change into color B) 1 dc in every hdc (25)

7. (with color A)1 hdc in every dc (25)

8. At this point you may want to make a cord for tying the corners, to do that ch 14 and fasten off. Cut the thread and repeat from 1 to 8. for the other long side.

Shorter side:

1. (with color A, in front loops only) 1 hdc in every loop, ch 2, turn (23)

2. – 5. (in both loops) 1 hdc in every hdc, ch2, turn (23)

6. (change into color B) 1 dc in every hdc (23)

7. (with color A)1 hdc in every dc (23)

8. At this point you may want to make a cord for tying the corners, to do that ch 14 and fasten off. Cut the thread and repeat from 1 to 8 for the other short side.

Make the little cords on the other sides of every long and short part (again simply ch 14 with color A).

Your basket should look like that:

Now tie the corners and use to keep whatever you wish!