Restless mind, restless hands: Crocheted baskets

Something easy, fitting for mid week handcrafts: crocheted baskets.

I went and bought something they call t-shirt yarn. Yarn that has the same quality as a t-shirt ripped to shreds. Litteraly shreds.

You'll need a big hook for this, it says size 12 on the label. The biggest I have is size 10. It was a bit tight, but it worked, and the baskets got a nice finish, me thinks.

I started with four chain stitches, which I then made into a loop.

Believe it or not, this is a loop..

Then, I made 12 single crochets in the loop.

Going around and around in spirals can be tricky considering you have to increase for every round, so that the circle expands. What I did here is that I increased with two single crochets in every other stitch in the previous round. I did this for the first two rounds, after that I increased with two single crochets in every third stitch.

I tried to draw a chart of the increasing, but it sucked, so I changed my mind.

When I felt that the bottom circle was big enough, I stopped increasing, and instead made one single crochet per stitch, which automatically created the walls of the basket.