Making a laundry basket liner for an ali baba style laundry basket

[MiniMum97]

I have bought a new laundry basket but it has no liner. How would I go about making it? Not sure how to measure the inside of the basket. Pic attached.
Thank you :-)

I made one like that 25(?) years ago.
I measured the bottom circle and and the belly at the widest point.
Then I cut 1x bottom circle + seam allowance
1 x rectangle of widest point x entire height up the inside (contour) plus turnover.

Sew the rectangle into a tube and gather it to fit the bottom circle. Stitch together and hem the top (make a channel for a drawstring?).

I put the liner in right sides visible and tacked a few stitches through the basketweave to hold it to the belly and then folded over the top.

HTH!

I just used a tape measure but was generous. You don't want to reduce the capacity by it being too tight!

Thank you for the comprehensive reply. Really helpful, thank you. I have a sewing machine and made a few things but am not very experienced. How do you do the gathering of the rectangle?

I'd put 4 pins at equal distance around the mouth of the (rectangle made into a) tube and 4 pins at equal distance around the circumference of your bottom circle.

Then, by hand, quickly sew running stitches around the mouth of the tube, place the mouth onto the circle, right sides together (4 tube pins matching 4 circle pins) and pull the stitching evenly to gather the tube until they match.

Then either tack or pin the pieces together before sewing on the machine. That's why you needed the seam allowance.

It should look like a Pringles tin, with the nice design inside and your rough edges of sewn fabric around the outside bottom of the "tin". They won't be visible once it's lining the basket.

Brilliant thanks so much!