| 1. Place two horizontal guides
on your canvas at the following marks: 180 and 250.
2. Place four vertical guides on your canvas
at the following marks: 128, 132, 146, and 152.
3. Set your foreground color to #963838 and
your background to pattern and use "Stained Wood", scale:
50%, angle: .
4. Click on your Preset Shapes Tool, set to
rectangle; Antialias and Vector checked; and draw a rectangle approximately the size shown by your
guides:
5. Click on your Object
Selector Tool and click on Node Edit.
6. Move your nodes to line up
with the intersection of your guides to give you a slightly
"angled" slat.
The screenshot below shows
where to place your nodes (left) and your new shape (right):
7. Move your vertical guides
to: 100, 109, 124, and 127. (We won't move the horizontal guides
until we start to make the bottom slats for our basket.)
8. Using the same method,
create your next basket slat so that it angles from top/left to
bottom/right.
9. Move your vertical guides
to: 70, 83, 97, and 106.
10. Create your next slat, same
angle.
11. Move your vertical guides
to: 50, 67, and 80 (leave the last guide at 106, as we don't need it
right now).
12. Create your next slat, same
angle, with one exception: your top right node and your bottom left
node will both use the same vertical guide mark: 67.
13. This is our outermost slat,
so we want to add a slight curve to the side of our basket.
14. Go back to Node Edit and
change your top left node to Symmetric. You should now have
two "control arms". Pull the bottom control arm down
and out as shown below, to give a slight curve to this slat. (Don't
worry about the curve on top as we will be covering this later.):
15. Move your vertical guides
to: 148, 156, 163, and 176.
16. Create your next slat so
that it angles from top/right to bottom/left.
17. Move your vertical guides
to: 167, 179, 187, and 203.
18. Create your next slat
so that it angles from top/right to bottom/left.
19. Once again this is our
outermost slat, so we want to add a slight curve to the side of our
basket.
20. Go back to Node Edit and
change your top right node to Symmetric. You should now have
two "control arms". Pull the bottom control arm down
and out to give a slight curve to this slat.
This is what I have so far, but
I am not happy with it.
The areas shown in the red
circles need tweaking. The top is too far apart and the bottom
is too close. Using Node Edit, adjust these areas as well as
any other you think need adjusted. Notice the difference
below:
21. Rename your vector layer
"top slats".
TIP: You can turn your guides
on/off by clicking on the  View
Guides icon without losing the settings for your guides.
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Preset Shapes
Object Selector
Draw Tool
Flood Fill
Select All
Float Selection
Defloat Selection
Invert Selection 
Select None
Retouch
Deformation
Mover
Eraser
Save (probably the most important of all)
Undo (this button should be your "best
friend")
