Moxie Rule of Life #458: One can never have too many sturdy bags.
After tackling a fair portion of my dog food bag stash to make shopping bags, I noticed that the flimsy plastic bag used to store flimsy plastic bags was sort of... um... overflowing. (Note to self: Reusable shopping bags are veritably useless if you leave them at home or in the car.) I'd bookmarked a plarn tutorial a while ago, so I set about cutting, assembling, and rolling a good-sized ball of plarn.
I cut and plarned all the bags I could find, without any real regard to color except to mix them up a bit for variegation. I knew I was making a grocery-shopping bag, and since it was my first foray into plarn, I figured I wouldn't care about color. And I was wrong. After I'd finished crocheting the bottom of the bag and gotten a good half dozen rows up the sides, I decided I hate that Kroger-bag brown. Ick. But I was too far into the project, and it is just a grocery sack after all, so the finished bag has sort of a spotty brown bovine feel.
It's interesting how this one bag is sort of a snapshot of my life. Bags mostly from Kroger and Walmart, many from Goodwill and Hobby Lobby, and the odd bag from Staples, Old Navy, and Kohl's.
For future projects, I'm going to keep the brown separate, reserved for dish scrubbies and loofahs and such.
By the way, I sort of made up the pattern as I went along, but the basics are: Chain 20-ish with size N hook. Single crochet in each stitch, 3 sc in the end stitch and then sc again down the other side of the chain and keep sc-ing around, increasing at the ends, until the bottom of the bag is as big as you want it. Do a hdc, then dc around and around and around until it's as tall as you like. Split for handles and sc around until the handles are thick/sturdy enough for your needs.
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