Monday, April 19, 2010

Celebrate Earth Day!

Earth Day is April 22, 2010. Here's a list of resources and patterns so knitters can get in the action too!

Official Earth Day Website

All kinds of great info on green knitting.

How to Make Your Knitting Eco-Friendly

Green Knitting and Crocheting Using Non-Traditional Materials

Knit Green: 20 Projects and Ideas for Sustainability by Joanne Seiff
Looks like a wonderful book!

Start a Green Knitting Club at Work

Plastic Bag Crafts - Lots of creative things to do with plastic bags.

Instructions for cutting plastic bags & creating recycled plastic yarn (Plarn)

Tutorial: How to turn plastic grocery bags into a crocheted reusable bag
Video

The Recycled-Bag Bag
Free Pattern (Photo)

Recycling Yarn
A how-to article

Recycled Container Portable Yarn Holders
A how-to article

Rag Knitting
A how-to article

33 Reusable Grocery Bags You Can Make: Free Patterns
All different methods, sewing, knitting, crocheting...

A Knitted Grocery Bag (Photo)
Free pattern


Until next time...Knit...Purl...Rat! (But use plarn!)

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