80 Ways To Save The Earth Tote Bag
Here is a great super stretchy tote bag that helps you save the earth too! It's super easy and knits up quickly. It took me 2 nights to complete.
Here's the recipe to make what I call 80 Ways to Save the Earth Tote (or 80 WTSTE Tote)
Whatchya need to succeed: 80 Plastic Bags made into yarn (see my video above for easy instructions!) 4-100g balls of Darn Good Yarn's Premium Recycled Silk Yarn, 1 pair of US13 knitting needles Black Nylon cord (or you can use the yarn), 94 Aluminum Can Tabs, about 80 plastic bags. As I noted in the video, if you'd like to make it smaller just use less bags because this is really stretchy. I personally use this bag to put flat rate boxes in when I bring your shipments down to the post office. I'm going to make another one for laundry too!
Gauge isn't that important on this project. For me each side measured 1ft 4 in across by 1 ft high. And, I'm serious...this puppy stretches.
How ya gonna do it: CO 50 stitches. Knit 2 then purl 2 straight across and then be sure to end each row on two knit stitches. Work this for 1 foot and then BO. Make a second side. To sew the two pieces together I just used The Yarn. I then turned it inside out (which would be right side out ;) )This gave it a nice square shape.
For the strap: Please refer to the video I made on how to make it. If you decide to use nylon cord or the silk figure out how long you'd like the strap. Say you'd like a strap which is 12 inches, multiply that by 3.5 and that will give you 42 which is how long of a length you should cut. The strap shown here is 2ft 7 inches which means a cord length of about 110 (It's better to have more cord than not enough). Then to secure it you can use whichever thread (nylon or silk) to the sides. Just be sure to secure it really well!
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