Got a new thing I'm participating in: Work-In-Progress Wednesday. So here's the project I'm working on today. I'm making a second plarn market bag for my local grocery store manager, so she can send the one she already has to the corporate office of the chain. I hope this gets talked about and maybe encouraged by the company. I'm using The Ultimate Recycled Market Bag pattern. It's available as a free download, if you want to try it out.
Here are some tips for working with plarn:
How to Make Plarn
Saving Your Hands & Arms When Using Plarn
This post is part of Work-In-Progress Wednesday, and you can find more links to WIP-Wed participants' blogs here.
Great idea, Amanda and thanks for the free pattern! Welcome to WIPW, so glad you could join. :)
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure! Love the idea of this WIPW thing.
ReplyDeleteInteresting idea. I think knitting with plarn would be hard on my hands.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea submitting to grocery store!
ReplyDeleteActually, it was the manager's idea. When she saw me using my bags one day, she asked if she could buy one from me. After a couple of years, she told me that she wanted to send her bag to the corp. office, so I decided to make her a new one.
ReplyDeleteDenise, you're right. Plarn can be very hard on the hands and arms. There are some tricks to make it much easier... mainly not cutting it too wide, and working loosely. My Sept. 8, 2010 blog post is all about that. I'll put a link in this post.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a wonderful idea! Thank you for the pattern!
ReplyDeletevery clever!
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