Cozy Fall Wire Basket Makeover with Pom Poms

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Easy Fall Wire Basket Makeover with Pom Poms - a gold Dollar Tree round wire basket with gold, cream, rust and raffia textured pom poms on the front shown on white background filled with two white coffee mugs, specialty coffee pods and a foil box of truffles to give as a gift basket.

This easy fall wire basket makeover is a simple way to create cozy, inexpensive gift baskets that can also be reused for storage. Fill them with seasonal treats like flavored coffee or candles for a thoughtful housewarming, teacher, or Thanksgiving hostess gift. Most of the supplies used here, including the baskets, yarn, and raffia, were found at Dollar Tree.

Fall Wire Basket With Pom Poms

I used a pom pom craft set to create the yarn pom poms for this project, which includes four sizes. You don’t need a pom pom tool—they can also be made by wrapping yarn around cardboard—but the maker keeps sizes consistent and speeds things up. Here are a few photos of the process.

Yarn wrapping to make a pom pom with a 3-inch pom pom maker finished and both end are closed.
Wrapping the yarn.
With both sides of the pom pom maker filled and closed, here I am cutting the yarn down the middle.
Cutting the yarn strands through the middle.

Tying things together tightly at the center with a single piece of yarn and three overhand knots.

Using about an 8 Inch piece of the same yarn to tie and knot the cut pom pom yarns together. The pom pom maker is still closed and there is a slit in the center of the pom pom maker that allows you to tie and knot all the yarns together.
Knotting the yarn strands at the center.
Giving a final trim to the finished 3-inch pom pom ball in a rust orange color.

Use wire to attach your pom poms to a basket. I used 28-gauge steel wire.

Easy Fall Wire Basket Makeover with Pom Poms - attach finished pom poms with wire to the Dollar store basket.

Here’s another pic of my finished basket. I love how it came out and plan to make a few more to have on hand for gifts before the season gets busy.

Easy Fall Wire Basket Makeover with Pom Poms - a gold Dollar Tree round wire basket with gold, cream, rust and raffia textured pom poms on the front. The finished gift basket is empty and ready to be filled to give as a gift basket.
Easy Fall Wire Basket Makeover with Pom Poms - a gold Dollar Tree round wire basket with gold, cream, rust and raffia textured pom poms on the front. The finished gift basket is empty and ready to be filled to give as a gift basket.
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

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Round man in the moon sign - Vintage style stenciled sign with a black cat singing, sitting on a knotty branch with pumkins below. The moon man face take up more than 3/4 of the round sign with the cat in the left corner. The colors are light gray for the moon, darker gray for the man face on the moon and black silhouette style for the cat scene. This fall sign was stenciled using cut stencil vinyl cut on a Cricut Maker 3.
Photo of two handmade witches brooms in a corner in a spooky scene. The backdrop is dark gray and there is an old wood crate with a sign that says Ye Olde Broom Shoppe. The two brooms are in the corner with an eerie tree branch and faux cobwebs. Everything looks like it's been there for a while and the sign is worn and tattered in black with fluted edges top and bottom in off white with a broom illustration over top.
Scarecrow made out of a dollar paintbrush. Decorated with burlap for a hat with a sunflower at the top and half of a bead for a nose. Attached to a string of natural wood beads and photographed on a dark wood table.
Round man in the moon sign - Vintage style stenciled sign with a black cat singing, sitting on a knotty branch with pumkins below. The moon man face take up more than 3/4 of the round sign with the cat in the left corner. The colors are light gray for the moon, darker gray for the man face on the moon and black silhouette style for the cat scene. This fall sign was stenciled using cut stencil vinyl cut on a Cricut Maker 3.
Handmade Signs
Photo of two handmade witches brooms in a corner in a spooky scene. The backdrop is dark gray and there is an old wood crate with a sign that says Ye Olde Broom Shoppe. The two brooms are in the corner with an eerie tree branch and faux cobwebs. Everything looks like it's been there for a while and the sign is worn and tattered in black with fluted edges top and bottom in off white with a broom illustration over top.
DIY Witch Broom
Scarecrow made out of a dollar paintbrush. Decorated with burlap for a hat with a sunflower at the top and half of a bead for a nose. Attached to a string of natural wood beads and photographed on a dark wood table.
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