Old Sweater, New Bag, Recycling Fun.

I've seen used felted sweaters and T Shirt's re-made into a bag, so I thought I'd give it a go too.

 The sleeve's and neck are cut off to begin with.

 The shape of the neck and arm holes are cut more for fine tuning of the shaping of the bag to be.

 The sides of the sweater are now the very center of the front and back of the bag to be. The bottom hem is now ready for sewing.

 Sewing completed.

 The bag is taking some shape, but is too bland.

I crocheted a divider in the center of the bag.

I found some felted pieces that I was to use for another project that didn't suit that project but looked okay for this one.

After applying the applique's and crocheting around the bag handles to neaten it up, I now have an original bag made by me.

 Now I have to test it out, roll on shopping day.

Crochet Plaid Scarf Neck/Warmer

I've seen the plaid used in an afghan and loved it, so I thought I'd play around with it on a smaller level, such as the neck warmer, the only thing is, that you don't have much room for the utmost effect of the plaid.

This is the simple formula I used for my neck warmer.

Grid completed.

The weaving.

Finished weaving.

The tool I used for easy weaving, a crochet hook, some fishing line and some gaffa tape to secure it. The eye of my so called weaving tool, carry's many strands of yarn at once. This is secured to the bottom of my crochet hook.

Some recent finished crochet projects

You may remember my child's, hdc ear flap hat pattern . I used this pattern to make a cute pink one for my daughter who is expecting a baby girl in June and I added some strawberry applique's for cuteness, which I found here

 I just used a smaller hook to make it a smaller hat.

I also finished my heart square baby blanket too, you can see where it began here and find the heart graph there too.

 Thanks for looking.