Easter Basket

My nephew will be attending an Easter egg hunt this year, so I thought it would be fun to make him a basket.

I thought that a one-year-old at an Easter egg hunt might get a little wild  so I figured that a soft basket would be the way to go. 

I made a basic fabric basket stiffened with a layer of craft weight interfacing and a layer of fusible fleece.
The basket was still a little floppy so I cut a piece of boning a few inches longer than the circumference of the circle and inserted it in the opening at the rim (the opening was left after I sewed the lining and outer fabric together so I could turn the project right way out).  I overlapped the edges of the boning.  Next, I stitched the opening closed.  Finally I machined stitched as close as I could to the boning to hold it in place. 
I added the handle after the base of the basket was complete.  The handle is stiffened with timtex. I sewed a band of ribbon around the basket to hide where I had sewn on the handles. 

I'd love to make an Easter bucket when he's a bit older.  Do you have any Easter projects in the works?  I'd love to hear what you're working on!