Make your own shopping bags!
Reusable shopping bags are all the rage. I try my best to use them as much as possible. I carry one in my purse and really do use it. The ones from the grocery store are wonderful but there is not too much style in them.
Lion Brand Yarns has a few patterns (both knit and crochet) to make bags that can be used shopping but look a lot nicer than the boring black ones I got at Wegmans. A knitted bag would be wonderful to carry around the local farmer’s market or just walking down the street while doing some local shopping. I really like this one – their Green Living Tote. I probably won’t get the recycled cotton yarn that they suggest but will use something out of my stash. I’m thinking either a cotton blend I have or an acrylic so its easily washed. This is not something you would want to use wool, unless it’s superwash wool.
The best thing is, this pattern is FREE! All you have to do is register at Lion Brand’s site and you have access to this pattern and hundreds more.
Lion Brand Yarn – Green Living Tote
