Happy June friends! Long time followers around here know that June means Pride month and a new rainbow pattern. And even though I moved in April and still feel all discombobulated, I couldn’t miss the opportunity for a new Pride design – so say hello to the brand new Rainbow Layer Cake Basket.

In addition to new rainbow patterns for June, you know I love to make baskets all year long. I just love how easy they are to make, how customizable they are, and how useful. Right now I’m looking at my new basket, with the skeins of yarn I plan on making another new rainbow pattern with, just sitting at the edge of the couch. It’s neat to me that it’s something I made and I already get to use. And I’ll use it over and over again. So rad!

Like most of my baskets, this pattern is worked from the bottom up in 3 sections – the base, the sides, and the handles. All the sections are worked in the round with a slip st into the first st of the round and each round starts with a ch 1, turn and you begin in the first st. And this easy structure makes this pattern easy to customize – feel free to add or subtract rounds from the base to make the basket smaller or add more repeats to the sides to make it taller, or even add more or subtract sts to make the handles larger or smaller. Or you can add a round of forward crab stitches like I did on my Clair Basket to add a “ooh” element to the basket top.

Now many of my other baskets were made with Hue + Me by Lion Brand Yarn but this one isn’t, it’s made with Mogollón 7 by Rosas Crafts which is on the thinner side for a bulky weight yarn. Just make sure you check your gauge against mine or keep in mind that yours could be larger if you use a thicker bulky when you make this design. Or you can make this basket with worsted weight yarn and it’ll be a nice, yet smaller, basket that is perfect for a dresser or a desk. It’s totally up to you.

I hope you like this week’s pattern my friends. Remember to be kind to each other but don’t take any BS. And that the first Pride was a riot, not a corporate sponsored snoozefest.

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If you appreciate my patterns I hope you’d consider purchasing an ad-free pdf of this pattern in my Ravelry shop and Lovecrafts shop (coming soon)!

Where to purchase the Rainbow Layer Cake Basket crochet pattern

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Base	Width	Height
8” – 8.5” (across)	13.5” (laid flat)	9.25” – 9.5” (to the top row, but does not include the handles)

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Rainbow Layer Cake Basket Crochet Pattern Instructions

Base

Rnd 1: A: Create a magic circle, ch 1, sc 6 times into the circle, join – 6 sc
Rnd 2: Ch 1, turn, sc twice into the next 6 sts, join – 12 sc
Rnd 3: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next st, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 18 sc
Rnd 4: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 2 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 24 sc
Rnd 5: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 3 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 30 sc
Rnd 6: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 4 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 36 sc
Rnd 7: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 5 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 42 sc
Rnd 8: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 6 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 48 sc
Rnd 9: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 7 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 54 sc
Rnd 10: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 8 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 60 sc
Rnd 11: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 9 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 66 sc
Rnd 12: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 10 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 72 sc
Rnd 13: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 11 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 78 sc
Rnd 14: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 12 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 84 sc
Rnd 15: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 13 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 90 sc
Rnd 16: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 14 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 96 sc
Rnd 17: Ch 1, turn, *sc into the next 15 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 5 more times, join – 102 sc
Fasten off color A, switch to color B. Move onto the Sides.

Sides

(RS) Rnd 18: B: Ch 1, turn, sc BLO into each st around, join – 102 sc
Rnd 19: Ch 1, turn, sc around, join – 102 sc
Drop color B, switch to color C.
Rnd 20: C: Ch 1, turn, *sc and hdc into the next st, sk the next st,* repeat from *  to * the rest of the way around, join – 51 sc, 51 hdc
Rnds 21 – 22: Ch 1, turn, sk the first hdc, sc and hdc into the next sc, *sk the next hdc, sc and hdc the next sc,* repeat from * to * the rest of the way around, join – 51 sc, 51 hdc
Fasten off color C, switch to color B.
Rnds 23 – 24: B: Ch 1, turn, sc around, join – 102 sc
Drop color B, switch to color D.
Rnds 25 – 27: D: Repeat Rows 20 – 22.
Fasten off color D, switch to color B.
Rnds 28 – 29: B: Repeat Rows 23 – 24.
Drop color B, switch to color E.
Rnds 30 – 32: E: Repeat Rows 20 – 22. 
Fasten off color E, switch to color B.
Rnds 33 – 34: B: Repeat Rnds 23 – 24.
Drop color B, switch to color F.
Rnds 35 – 37: F: Repeats Rnds 20 – 22.
Fasten off color F, switch to color B.
Rnds 38 – 39: B: Repeat Rnds 23 – 24.
Drop off color B, switch to color G.
Rnds 40 – 42: G: Repeat Rnds 20 – 22.
Fasten off color G, switch to color B.
Rnds 43 – 44: B: Repeat Rnds 23 – 24.
Drop color B, switch to color H.
Rnds 45 – 47: H: Repeat Rnds 20 – 22.
Fasten off color H, switch to color B.
Rnd 48: B: Ch 1, turn, sc around, join – 102 sc
Do not fasten off here, move onto the Handles.

Handles

Rnd 49: Ch 1, turn, sc into the next 15 sts, ch 30, sk the next 21 sts, sc into the next 30 sts, ch 30, sk the next 21 sts, sc into the final 15 sts, join – 60 sc, 2 ch-30 spaces
Rnd 50: Ch 1, turn, sc into the next 120 sts (this includes the sc and ch sts from the previous rnd), join – 120 sc
Rnd 51: Ch 1, turn, sc around, join – 120 sc
Fasten off, weave in all your ends.

You can pick up the Rainbow Layer Cake Basket Crochet Pattern in my Ravelry shop.

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