Fabric buckets! Ideal for Christmas or to fill with gifts

I have fabric buckets dotted all over the house and they are always useful for keeping bits and pieces in, and they look gorgeous. I use them for holding wool, ribbon, scraps of fabric, fabric quarters, notes and letters, and I have one for bits and pieces in the bathroom. Add a pot inside and they look good with a plant or with flowers inside. I've given a few ideas in the following photos. All the buckets are for sale, but without the contents (although the bird bucket and contents can be purchased as a gift bucket, if you are interested).

Try using a plastic pot insert and popping a plant into a fabric bucket and using as a table decoration, as shown here, this one made from Cath Kidston's bubbles fabric
lined with blue gingham. Or use a bucket for holding napkins.

The Christmas bucket would be fabulous packed with yummy gifts and wrapped in cellophane - You can fit quite a few bits and pieces into these.

The fabric really is gorgeous, lovely and thick... just take a closer look. What wonderful details to bring a festive feel.

The bird fabric makes a good bucket... again stuffed with gifts
(all these available in my shop)

and the back, showing another bird (lots on this bird bucket) and the back of this particular flower fairy cushion - the bubbles!). I've packed the bucket with a mildly lavender scented pillow, a pretty tissue holder , and a small chicken cushion...

Or why not use a bucket to collect all those hair accessories that seem to hang about all over the house. Clips can be attached to the top, and there you have an easy solution to a messy problem. Once you start using them, you find endless uses.

This one is made from Cath Kidston's enduringly beautiful bubble rose fabric (now very difficult to get hold of at a sensible price), lined with Laura Ashley white spot on pink.

Or pack a fabric bucket with those fqs of fabric - they can hold several. This is a fabric called Albertine, which Cath Kidston designed for Ikea a while back.

It's a very nostalgic print.

The buckets are stiffened with interfacing for stability. They are ideal shabby chic Christmas presents, to give, or to keep, or to fill with more gifts.

Sizes: note that height is with the top folded down so is approximate.
Height: approx 19-20 cm; approx 15 cm (diameter)

GB £10.00 for a bucket plus £1 post and packing within the UK. Email me at:
thesewhappyshop@yahoo.co.uk
Bird bucket is available with contents at a special price (Flower Fairy lavender pillow, tissue holder with tissues, small chicken cushion): £18 plus £1.70 post and packing within the UK.
Please contact me for shipping elsewhere. I hope you've enjoyed looking at the buckets. Thank you for stopping by.

Pretty French fabric bucket set

I have fabric buckets dotted all over the house and they are incredibly useful. I use them for holding wool, ribbon, scraps of fabric, fabric quarters, notes and letters, and I even have one for bits and pieces in the bathroom. Add a pot inside, and they look gorgeous with a plant or flowers inside. This listing in the shop is for a set of two fabric buckets, which just can't be separated as they work so well together...


These are made from a summer floral fabric I found in France last year. I haven't much left, so there won't be many of these around. They are lined with a complimentary good quality pink gingham.

The buckets are stiffened with interfacing for stability.


Or they look fab on a bathroom shelf with special bottles and cotton wool balls.


Sizes: note that height is with the top not folded down.
Medium: 15 cm (height); 11 cm (diameter)
Small: 12 cm (height); 10.5 cm (diameter)

I have other buckets available in the shop - please click on Fabric bucket under labels in the right hand side bar to find them quickly.

Sold. Thank you. Email me at:
thesewhappyshop@yahoo.co.uk
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Boats Fabric bucket Cath Kidston boats and bubbles

A fabulous fabric bucket, perfect for all those bits and pieces we all have around the house. I use these for fabric scraps, as plant pots (lined with a plastic inner pot), for wool - they really are incredibly useful...and pretty too.


This one has Cath Kidston's gorgeous boat cotton duck on the outside and Cath Kidston bubbles on the inside.


The bucket is stiffened with interfacing for stability.


They can be used with the top up or folded down.


I love these - they are unique - you really won't see them everywhere you go.

Base diameter: 15 cm. Height (when unfolded): 21 cm

GB £10.00 plus £1 post and packing within the UK. Email me at:
thesewhappyshop@yahoo.co.uk
Please contact me for shipping elsewhere.

Bubble rose fabric bucket

I love this bucket - one of my favourites of all my buckets. I've used Cath Kidston bubble rose, now very difficult to get hold of, and Laura Ashley pink/white spot. Stiffened with interfacing and perfect for all sorts of purposes. I use these all over the house, for fabric scraps, as plant pots (lined with a plastic inner pot), for wool scraps - they really are incredibly useful...and pretty too.

Base diameter: 15 cm. Height (as shown with top rolled down): 18.5 cm

GB £10.00 plus £1 post and packing within the UK.
Email me at:
thesewhappyshop@yahoo.co.uk
Please contact me for shipping elsewhere.

French fabric fabric bucket family

I love making fabric buckets, and you'll find consquently a lot will be popping up in the shop, individually for the most part. However, this family really needs to stay together, I think, as it looks so pretty as a set.

I have fabric buckets dotted all over the house and they are incredibly useful. I use them for holding wool, ribbon, scraps of fabric, fabric quarters, notes and letters, and I even have one for bits and pieces in the bathroom.


Add a pot inside, and they look gorgeous with a plant or flowers inside.


These are made from a summer floral fabric I found in France last year. I haven't much left, so there won't be many of these around. They are lined with a complimentary good quality pink gingham. They are also interlined to stiffen them.

Sizes: please note these can only be approx, because it depends on the turn down. All measurements here are with the turn down as photographed. Diameters given are as measured across the base.

Large: 18 cm (height); 16 cm (diameter)
Medium: 13 cm (height); 12 cm (diameter)
Small: 10 cm (height); 11 cm (diameter)

THIS IS NOW SOLD. MANY THANKS.