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coffee bag basket with red and silver color design

Paulig’s Presidentti coffee packets have nice colors and patterns, but unfortunately the coffee packets consist of two plastic layers, of which the top colorful layer is thin and rustling and not a particularly attractive material for weaving. The first challenge arises when cutting the strips, when the layers detached from anywhere other than the back seam may not necessarily stay on top of each other in the front of the bag. Another challenge comes in folding the strips for the same reason. Folding two layers is also heavier than one. The strips may also become too wide more easily. In addition, when weaving, the double-layered material is slightly stiffer.

I once made a green bag from Presidentti coffee bags, but after that always peeled off the rustling layer. Now, however, I dared to try using a double-layer coffee bag when I received these red Presidentti Ruby coffee bags.

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I made red Ruby and the inside of silver-colored Presidentti coffee packets into a checkered basket. The sides of the basket are woven vertically with silver strips and horizontally with red strips. The base of the basket is completely silver. The basket contains four squares and four corner pieces, which are connected with a curling ribbon. The height of the basket is 22,5 cm and the base of the basket is 15 x 15 cm. You need 36 red strips (6,8 cm wide) and 48 silver strips (also 6,8 cm wide).

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small coffee bag basket from corner pieces and triangles

Light blue Reykjavik and pink Sydney coffee packets have been used for this basket. The material is bags left over from a multi-colored cube basket, from which the mono-colored parts of the upper parts have been used.

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Triangles and corner pieces are woven from coffee bags by mixing strips of two different colors.

This small basket consists of two corner pieces and two triangles. The four parts of the basket are connected with a gift ribbon and a gift ribbon is also strung on the upper edge of the basket as reinforcement. The size of the basket is approximately 10,5 x 10,5 x 10,5 cm.

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rainbow basket

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Rainbow coffee bags have become so different model squares while creating content for this website that I already had enough for a large basket. I turned some of the red squares at the top and bottom of the bags into corner pieces. One red square remained for the bottom of the basket. The remaining 13 squares are all different.

The squares and corners are connected in the usual way with a gift string. The bottom looks like every other square is red and every other is patterned.

The upper edge of the basket was finished with string. The pattern of the basket became quite mixed, but still works well for storing goods in a closet, for example.

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colorful coffee bag basket

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The previous Paulig city coffee project left me a lot of material and resulted in a multicolored combination of text and patterned strips. I ended up weaving an elongated basket out of them that fits even in a bathroom mirror cabinet that the deeper baskets don’t fit.

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The strips were cut into this basket just from the top of the bags side by side, and the layout takes into account that the Paulig logos and barcodes on the back of the bag do not appear outside the basket. The basket consists of three triangles, two corner pieces and one square. The size of the basket is approx. 10,5 x 21 x 10,5 cm. You can watch the construction of the basket in the video:

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experimenting with corner pieces

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There have been so many samples of square weaving in this website project that I wanted to make baskets for storage that are easy to browse. Baskets with the height of a half-square can be woven using corner pieces, and in addition, traditional squares have been used here to make the basket elongated and to hold more squares in it. Juhla Mokka was chosen as the material for the baskets, because I have already made enough bags from it. The first basket was made of chain-patterned Juhla Mokka squares.

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The corner pieces are connected in the same way as the squares. In this basket, the hinges are only in the middle of the flat surfaces of the basket and it is easier to cover them. The corners also become smoother when they have no knots or other seams on them. The chain pattern continues nicely around the entire basket and the basket is solid red on the inside and bottom.

The second basket came with 8×8 corner pieces and 6×8 squares in the middle. Juhla Mokka bags always leave much narrower strips from the bottom and the top parts of the bags due to the tearing of the edges, so now I was able to use them as well.

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The different widths look nice in the basket, but don’t stand out too much. There are also different shades of red in the basket, because the strips are cut from Juhla Mokka bags in different places and the same strip may already have different shades.

One basket can hold about 40 squares and the examples of the coffee bags that have been used for the weaving.

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large white and black coffee bag basket

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These older Juhla Mokka coffee bags are one of my all time favorite, because of the alignment of the white parts of the logos on the bag. In the newer Juhla Mokka bags the logos are not aligned with each other, so it is impossible to weave this type of white and black design. There are 156 strips in the basket that have been cut one/coffee bag. The rest of the coffee bag material is enough for couple of other projects.

This basket consists of nine squares, five triangles and two corner pieces. You can see how the weaving technique of the triangle effects on the design the way that not all the parts of the triangle are white based. Luckily only one little triangle is showing red on each woven triangle so it doesn’t effect the whole design that much.

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The pieces are joined wit 1 cm wide gift string. See the whole making of the basket on the video below:

As you can see there are few red parts on the edge of the basket, but it is quite unnoticeable, because the inside of the basket is the same color.

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kulta katriina basket

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Remaining from the previous Kulta Katriina traditional woven basket, the lower parts of the bags remained, resulting in a basket of eight square and four corner pieces. The strips used are cut from the part where the front of the coffee pack has a gold-colored pattern and the sides are black. A total of 132 strips went to make the basket.

The patterns are arranged in a woven square in the shape of a cross and in the corner piece respectively, but on three smaller sides.

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The pieces were joined with a gift string and the top of the basket was finished with black anorak cord. The size of the finished basket is approx. 22,5 x 30 x 15 cm.

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juhla mokka organic basket

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These Juhla Mokka organic coffee bags are narrower than other Juhla Mokka bags, have a matte finish and are incorporated into burlap patterns. So using these with regular Juhla Mokka bags would be a bit challenging, so I made a small basket which consists of 10 coffee bags. The width of the coffee bags is about 14,5 cm and the strips used in the weaving are 6,5 cm wide. The folded strip is thus 1 mm narrower than the usual Juhla Mokka bags when weaving.

This small basket consists of two corner pieces and two triangles. The pattern of the basket are designed so that in addition to the background color / pattern of the coffee bag, golden and black text and a golden coffee cup are visible on the outside. All green, white and logos are omitted from the inside of the basket.

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The four parts of the basket are joined with a gift ribbon and a gift ribbon is also threaded on the top of the basket for reinforcement. The size of the finished basket is about 10 x 10 x 10 cm.

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juhla vuosi coffee bag basket

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After weaving the confetti-patterned bag, there was still some confetti parts left of the coffee bags. In these, however, logos and texts are in the way, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the pattern wouldn’t look great anyway. The width of the cut strips is 6,8 cm.

This basket consists of four squares and four corner pieces. The strips are arranged symmetrically so that the white areas come from the visible parts of the strip to the middle and the angle points outwards from the center of the square. The strips are also arranged in the same way on corner pieces.

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The pieces of the coffee bag basket are connected to each other with a gift cord, which has also been used to cover the seams (instruction on the video above). The top of the basket was left unfinished. The size of the finished basket is about 22,5 x 15 x 15 cm.

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yellow and green coffee bag basket

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Paulig’s Brazil coffee bags have green images and text on a yellow background. This basket consists of four squares and four corner pieces woven from 6,8 cm wide strips cut from the bottoms of the bags.

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