Inside Chloe and Rose's studio: their grandmother's baskets — now $64.95 CAD

Our grandmother grew up in a small house with six siblings. Clothes piled on chairs, shoes scattered by the entrance, blankets folded on the sofa because there was no other place. It was the beautiful chaos of a large family — noisy, full, imperfect.

She never complained. Instead, she began to sew.

She would take the leftover scraps, stitch them layer by layer by hand — slowly, patiently — and place a basket in every room. One in the bedroom for the blankets. One in the bathroom for the towels. One in the living room for everything the day left behind.

It wasn't about tidying up. It was about caring.

We wanted any woman to be able to have a handmade basket in her home without paying $300 for it.

There was something in that gesture — taking the chaos of a house full of life and giving it a place — that transformed everything. The house stayed noisy. It stayed full. But it felt different. It felt cared for.

Quilted basket-making is one of the oldest domestic crafts in the world — and one of the most forgotten. The structure comes entirely from the stitching: no wire, no insert, no hidden frame. Twelve stitches per centimetre, placed through all three layers — outer fabric, batting, lining — in a single motion of the needle.

When she passed away in 2018, we brought the baskets home. And only then did we understand what she had truly been doing all those years. She hadn't just organised a house. She had transformed chaos into comfort.