Basket Made Of Wire And Hardware Cloth Rectangle Cutting 1 Foot Squares From Corners And Folding Up

I've been able to get very creative with my supply of one quarter inch hardware cloth. I've used it for many projects and I keep finding new applications.

Here I'm iterating on my existing design of a cylindrical basket and prototyping a rectangular basket. I have a number of scrap pieces of this 3 foot wide roll, this piece was about 5 feet long so it made a good rectangle to work with. The simple design process is just to cut equal sized squares out of each corner of the rectangle. I chose to make a 1 foot wide and one foot tall basket so I cut one square foot out of each corner. I used a one foot piece of wood I'd previous cut for another project as a guide to measure the cuts and with tin snips was able to get roughy matching cuts. The scrap piece of hardware cloth was a bit folded and wrinkled but it worked out okay. Once the cuts were made, it was in a bit of cross shape. I just folded the flaps up and wired them together with small lengths of electric fence wire. It made for a very simple, light-weight basket. It's not the sturdiest thing, though for simple applications such as organizing this scavenged lumber, it works great for my purposes.