Do you love how the brim of my sunhats look but need a little more help than a picture tutorial? Maybe you’d like to add wire to a basket to help hold the shape! Here is a video tutorial for you which gives detailed instruction on how to use the millinery wire. Once you watch the video, you’ll have a better understanding of what you can do with the wire and how to use the joiner.
Millinery wire is mainly used for people that make hats and the like. That’s how I first discovered it when I started designing the sunhats. The joiner is used to join the ends of the wire together and clasped together with pliers.
Since I had some of the wire around the house, I decided to try it out with a basket and loved it. I hope you will too!
If you are interested in purchasing the wire, check out my Etsy Shop for more details.
For the pattern information using the wire, check out the Sea Glass Basket and the Sunhats
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Thank you for such a well done tutorial. I bought my wire/joiners from you. The only thing I’ve done wrong (so far) was to start up the basket sides before I watched the tutorial, so I’m ripping out the sides down to the outer circle of the base so I can put in the wire. Can’t wait to see it come together!
Yay! Please show me when you’ve finished!!!
My basket won’t lay flat. Is my wire too short?
Is it like a wave where if you push one side down, other other side comes up? If so, you may have too much wire. Let me know.
My basket won’t lay flat. Did I cut my wire too short?
Good tutorial- but it might have been helpful to say what kind of wire you’re using and where you get the joins. I’ve never seen the rayon covered wire.
I can update the blog post to say millinery wire. There is also links to my Etsy shop within the blog post where you can see the wire and purchase if you want. Have a great day!