thanks to everyone for your tips! I will post pics when I finish.

Good save--that basket will make a great accent piece.

I have lined baskets before and what I do is trace the bottom of the basket but make it a bit bigger for seam allowance. Start with that, then wrap your fabric around the outside of the basket and make it about that size or a tad larger, as you can always take in the side seam. Make it taller than the basket also, so you have room to turn it under and make an elastic pocket and have enough at the bottom to stitch it to your base circle. So better to be a little taller than you need than too short. Good luck and show us pictures.

I finished my basket! It was not an easy task as I am extremely rusty on sewing curves. I could have used a bit less fabric, and making the lining to the contour of the basket was a challenge. It also would have been a bit easier if I had some large binder clips of something to hold the fabric up. My small wonder clips were too small. I ended up finding 3 clothespins - it was better than nothing! But it came out pretty good and will serve the purpose I intended. Here are some pics of it finished.

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Go to the sew4home site. They just did a basket project, a couple weeks ago. It was a round picnic basket. Look under projects. But I'm going to warn you. That site has a lot of cool projects��

The small trash bags are rectangle and they fit smaller round trash cans. Box the ends and gather the top of fabric with elastic and it should fit fine.