RSSCrochet Grocery Bag Tote
Here's a fun way to recycle those pesky plastic grocery bags that are piling up in your kitchen. Instead of recycling them back at the supermarket, make yourself a cool tote bag. Here's the full step-by-step on how to take regular o' plastic grocery bags, cut them up, and crochet them into a tote! Find bags with a variety of colors for cool stripe patterns. [via] Link.
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Oct 28, 2005 10:48 AM
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| Posted by: Groceries on August 5, 2007 at 11:49 PM |
That's a cool idea. I also saw clothing made out of grocery bags here: http://www.craftzine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/plastic_grocery_bags_into_knit.html
Daphne
http://www.citysales.ca/shoppers/35/flyers.aspx
| Posted by: GreenTallahassee on August 19, 2007 at 5:21 AM |
This may be a solution for all those pesky grocery bags that we get. Right now, banning them completely seems to cause an increase in plastic bags used to line trash containers. When you can't recycle, why not reuse?
Cara
www.greentallahassee.blogspot.com
| Posted by: erica on March 4, 2008 at 4:58 PM |
umm grrentallahassee it's reduce THEN reuse THEN RECYCLE! you reuse before you recycle!! and this also obv reduces as well!!!
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Posted by: rosiebeeme on July 9, 2008 at 6:57 AM |
I really want to make this bag, but I'm knitting now.
Are there knitting instructions to match?
Thanks.
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Posted by: Natalie Zee Drieu on July 9, 2008 at 9:27 AM |
For knitting I think you can try a simple garter stitch (knit every row) to the measurement of how you want the bag to be. Try knitting a swatch for gauge to get your exact stitches/measurements correct.
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