Halloween Trick or Treat Basket: Free Sewing Pattern

Learn how to sew a trick or treat basket with a free sewing pattern. This beginner sewing pattern is great for decorating and carrying candy.

When my kids were young, my favorite thing for my kids to use when trick-or-treating was those cheap plastic pumpkin buckets. It didn’t hold too much candy, the opening stays open when they hold it up for someone to put candy in, and it was great at storing candy for the next couple of weeks.

The biggest problem with the plastic pumpkin buckets is that they were large and hard to store. They take up so much space.

I have designed a trick or treat basket made out of fabric that is the same size as the plastic pumpkin bucket. It holds it shape, holds a similar amount of candy, but it can be flattened to be stored for the next year. Get the free sewing pattern at the end of the post!

What fabric should I use to make a trick or treat basket?

This trick or treat basket works great with quilting cotton. Quilting cotton is easy to find and easy to sew. You can use solid colors to coordinate with your costume, or you can use fun Halloween print fabric. Quilting cotton presses well, and it’s durable and washable.

How do I make the trick or treat basket stand up?

This trick or treat basket uses both medium weight fusible interfacing and fusible fleece. The combination of these two makes the basket stand up and hold its shape. It will be durable and will hold it’s shape even after being washed.

Do you like the jack-o-lantern basket? Get the sewing pattern!

The free pattern that you can get at the end of the post is just the pattern pieces for this pattern. If you want the full instructions and the jack-o-lantern face, you can buy the Halloween Trick or Treat Basket Sewing Pattern for just $5!

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How to sew a Halloween Trick or Treat Basket

Supplies

• Free trick or treat basket – get it at the end of the post
• 1 fat quarter for the outer fabric
• 1 fat quarter for the lining fabric
• 1 fat quarter of medium fusible interfacing
• 1 fat quarter of fusible fleece
• Sewing tools
• Sewing machine

Do you just want the pattern and tutorial as a PDF? Get the pattern and tutorial for just $5. You won’t need to access the internet every time you want to make it. Or get the Pattern Bundle with ALL the PDF tutorials!

Instructions

Cut out six side pieces, a bottom, and strap from the outer fabric. Cut out six side pieces and a bottom from the lining fabric.

Cut out six side pieces and a bottom from fusible fleece. Cut out six side pieces, a bottom, and strap from the fusible interfacing.

Fuse the fusible fleece to the outer pieces. Fuse the interfacing to the lining pieces and the strap.

Fold the strap in half wrong sides together and matching the long edges. Press. Open back up. Bring each long edge in to meet at center front with wrong sides together. Press. Fold the center fold so that the long edges are enclosed inside. Press again. You now have three folds.

With all folds folded and the long edges enclosed, sew along each long edge 1/8 inch from the edge to secure the folds.

Sew quilting lines through the fabric with fusible fleece. Choose whatever style of quilting you want.

With right sides together, match up the curved edges of two sides. Sew with a 3/8 inch seam allowance. Keep matching up another side and sew until all six pieces are sewn together and it forms a “tube”.

Do the same to the lining pieces.

Press the seams open on both “tubes”.

Divide the bottom into four. Divide the bottom of the “tube” into four. Match up and pin the sections with right sides together. Make sure the side seam allowances are open. Do the same to the other piece.

Sew the bottom to the sides with a 3/8 inch seam allowance. I found it was easiest to sew with the bottom up and the sides down in my sewing machine, but it might feel more comfortable looking at it the other way.

Do the same to the other piece.

Pin the short ends of the strap on opposite sides of the top. Baste the strap ends in place.

Turn one of the buckets right side out.

Put the right side out bucket inside the wrong side out bucket. Match up the top edges. You won’t be able to push the inner bucket all the way down because of the strap so it’ll be squished inside.

Pin the top edges together matching the side seams. Make sure all the side seams are open.

Sew the top edge with a 3/8 inch seam allowance. I found this to be easiest if the bucket was slid onto the arm of my sewing machine.

Make sure to leave a 2-3 inch hole for turning right side out.

Turn the bucket right side out.

Push the lining inside the basket. Roll the top edge so that the seam is pulled all the way out.

Pinch the hole closed. Sew around the top 1/8 inch from the edge closing the hole and making the edge look nice and neat.

You finished!

Get the Free Sewing Pattern here!

If you make something using this sewing project, I’d love to see! Please share it on social media with the hashtag #heatherhandmade and tag me!