Making a hanging peg basket

We recently bought a caravan and I have been having fun using lots of scraps and making functional things to use in the caravan. I had a small piece of caravan fabric left over form a quilt I made a friend and so thought I would make a hanging peg basket. It has a coat hanger to hang it by so can hang from anywhere but I have a mini rotary clothes line so will hang it on that.

Firstly measure the children's coat hanger and cut 4 pieces of fabric, all the same size with one edge the same width as the coat hanger plus 1/2" for seams.. Mine measures 10" x 9". You can use different fabric for each piece or the same fabric. I chose different fabric for the back as I had some dyed fabric I thought went well with the colourful caravans.

I like the idea of a round hole and used a cup as a template. My first hole template was a large saucer which was too big and the pegs would have fallen out! Find something about the right size and trace around it. The opening needs to be large enough to allow a hand clutching a fistful of pegs to go in and out.

Place two pieces of fabric, right sides together - this will be the front of the peg basket. Trace the hole on this in the position you want. Do not make it too close to the bottom as the pegs will fall out. Now stitch around the line you have drawn.

Clip the seam. It needs to be well clipped to sit flat. Turn the two pieces right sides out and press. Topstitch around the circle.

Mark the midpoint for the hanger to come through and stitch an eyelet on the front. I go over this a few times for strength. use a seam ripper to make a hole in the eyelet for the hanger.

Place the remaining two pieces of fabric wrong sides together and pin to the front section with right sides together.

Overlock or sew all around. Turn inside out and press well.

The picture below shows my finished peg basket without the hanger.