Apparently one can make a basket with nothing more than some jute rope, hundreds of metres of jute thread, a needle, and having nothing else to do. Using material of the same colour for both wrappee and wrapper handily serves to conceal many mistakes. (I had "only" 50m of the wrapping thread, and I've run out now, but the basket is just barely big enough to hold the remaining 8 metres of rope, so at least I can set it aside somewhat neatly.)