Shopping Bag Done!
I finished this suckah this afternoon.
At first I was going to say that it doesn’t look too pretty, but now I think it turned out looking pretty nifty. As long as it holds my bread, eggs, fruit and what-have-you without complaint, then I shan’t either. I just hope it holds up because I know at some point some poor fool is going to try to shove a gallon of milk in there and we’ll see how well that works.
A note on the red yarn I used. I had a sweater that was given to me as a hand me down.
Well, it never fit right, and I’d had an obsession with trying to find any sweaters that I own that I could recycle the yarn from. This one fit the bill even though I still liked the pattern and look to some degree. But it was all cotton and thus heavy and not very warm. All those factors added up to dismantling. I’d read a good tutorial how to unravel a sweater from Neauveau.com The unraveling has worked out well, except that the sweater was apparently worn on the elbows, so the yarn is frayed in several spots. It still makes a good cotton yarn for utilitarian type things, like my shopping bag! The nice creamy denim flecked yarn was a gift from my brother.
So, we’ll be adding this bag to our group of reusable bags that we take to our local grocery stores Trader Joe’s, Sunflower Farmers Market and on occasion, Whole Foods. We have them hanging on our front door knob so every time we go out the door we can remember to take them down to the car. It really didn’t take that long to start a routine and have it stick as habit. Kenneth said to me awhile back, “You know one of the things I like best about Whole Foods, is that when the cashier asks if I want paper or plastic and I say that I brought my own, they don’t give me a funny look.”