My friends at the Star City Scene message board are talking about plastic bags vs. bring your own bag here.
This is a post dedicated to bringing your own bag…from recycled pants:
or from recycled plastic bags!
Classic bags:
Archive for February, 2008
Bag gallery
Monday, February 25th, 2008oscar oscar oscar
Monday, February 25th, 2008I seem to always be making clothes in late Feb/early March during Oscar season. In the past, it has been on the sewing machine, but now I’m in the home stretch on the Green Gable Sweater. It is Oscar the Grouch colored, so I think it qualifies.
Got the arms attached, and worked through the 2 pages of yoke. So far only one portion of the instructions made absolutely no sense, which is actually great. Looking at the length of the yoke instructions, it appeared really intimidating.
Really enjoyed looking at all of the dresses and the awards last night. Super psyched at how multi-cultural the awards ceremony and movies have become. None of the actors who won are American! I was really excited by this, as I really enjoy foreign films. It would be really sad if a performance such as Marion Cotillard’s Edith Piaf didn’t win just because it isn’t in English. She did such an amazing job in that movie portraying and singing Piaf’s life from ages 18 to a super-worn out age 48.
opening day of racing
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Ty and I went to the horseraces at Fonner Park last weekend. I didn’t get any pictures of horses, but there were raging ice storms every half hour.
I got the 3rd place winner for the first 5 races. Unfortunately, I bet them to win and place too, so ended up almost even. Ty wasn’t as lucky. It is so weird going the first day when the most recent race most horses ran was in October. Some hadn’t raced in 1-2 years!
Seed starting
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Planted a bunch of things this weekend. Found a really cool seed-starter: clear plastic organic egg cartons. I planted some basil a couple of weeks ago here’s how it is turning out:
Started some tomatoes (cherry, beefsteak, roma) since my dad said he isn’t starting any this year. (YEAH RIGHT.)
Green Gable Sweater: arms
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Made some progress on the Green Gable Sweater. This is knitted up in Misti Alpaca chunky, color Chartreuse Melange (7238). To hit the gauge, I’m knitting it on size 11 needles.
Got the arms done this weekend, have about 13 inches done on the body. I’ll have more pictures on that later this week. I really want to get it done before it gets warmer outside. It is a weird sweater. The cables on the arms and the back are fantiastic. They aren’t really cables in the classic style, however the plain front leaves something to be desired. It is an over-sweater/hoodie, so it is meant to be worn over many layers and not very form flattering. It seems like something could have been done design-wise to make it a little more flattering. Maybe I’ll put a kangaroo pouch on the front of it or something to just break it up a little.
Activist Craft
Saturday, February 9th, 2008I warned you I would do it.
Today is the Nebraska Democratic Caucus. I am reminding folks with my garage door.
Oh bring back my Tyrone to me
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Sorry for the break, went on a quilting spree, and I can’t get good looking pictures.
Here is the super-secret installation piece. In December I inherited 20-30 industrial spools of fine weight acrylic cone yarn. I also purchased a small I-Cord maker. The I-Cord maker is a little annoying in that it “twists” the I-Cord, so making 30-40 ft quickly becomes a pain. I also purchased 40 super-strong mini-magnets.
The intent was to have an I-Cord with embedded mini-magnets that could be configured into words or symbols on our garage door. The first attempt showed the magnets were too small to be contained by the I-Cord, and easily fell out. I ended up wrapping a single magnet in a 2” by 6” piece of magazine paper. The ends of the paper were creased to a point to hold the magnet, and to make passage through the I-Cord maker easier. Next I started the yellow acrylic through the I-Cord maker, passing a wrapped magnet through every 10”-12”.
I made about 30 feet of magnetic cord, and then I continued the cord for 60 more feet and cut the cord. After messing with the cord, I noticed the magnets still popped out. A second pass through the I-cord maker was required.
It all comes together to form the following:
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