Rope Bowls have been on my “must try” list for ages. I was motivated to finally go for it when I thought they would make great storage containers for the house.
I ordered an entire spool of rope from Lost Property HK on etsy. It was a lovely quality in a pale cream/off white colouring. If I was to do it again I think I would go with either a thicker diameter or a heavier weight as this was sometimes a little “squishy” feeling under the machine. When I asked for pointers in my Instagram stories quite a few fellow sewists suggested that softer rope was actually harder to control.
Despite this I found the entire process incredibly fun and one I would repeat again. I used a heavyweight needle, Rasant thread and a large zig zag. Once you got the spiral started it grew quickly and is fast! Within an hour I had 4 bowls and apart from the fact dinner needed to be cooked I would’ve kept going.
The next day I finished off the entire spool. One spool yielded 6 bowls which stack inside of each other with each one getting wider and taller than the last.They are not perfect but they are very practical and beautiful in their tactileness.
For the moment I’ve left the top join raw but am considering dip dying the bottoms in indigo and dyeing some cotton tape to match and then finishing off the raw join with a loop?
Pattern – made it up as I went and watched lots of youtube videos
Fabric – spool of cord from Lost Property HK
Alterations – change up weight of cord? figure out how to get bottoms to sit flat (I think it’s a tension thing)
Raquel
Looks great! I’m going to give it a try. We just moved to a new apartment and I could use some stylish accessories.
Susan Goodwin
I’ve finding them very useful as kind of catch all bowls that can be used all over the apartment
Fabric Tragic
Cute! I feel like I saw recently you can iron the bottom flat…
Susan Goodwin
am so trying the iron trick that would be awesome!