Recycled Plastic Bags by CraftyKathi: Warner Fall Foliage Festival

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Warner Fall Foliage Festival

October is around the corner and I have been very busy trying to make enough bags for the upcoming Warner Fall Foliage Festival, October 11 & 12th. I am lucky enough to have the wonderful support of April at Akasha Massage and Bodywork. They will be at the fair giving chair massages. They have offered the use of their table for some of my bags. Well, I am excited to say I have finished 34 bags. I still have 2 more to do this week but I thought I would show you the bags I have going. My large bags are about 16x16in. The large/med bags are about 13x13. Medium bags are 12x12 in. Small bags are 10x10in. and tiny bags are 8.5x5.5in.

My next deadline is to make enough bags for the Bow Craft Fair in November....got to get crocheting!!!

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The Plastic Bag...

Ahh, the plastic bag. Where once it was a choice at the grocery store has now become the way we carry home our groceries. Can you count how many you have used? 100's maybe 1,000's of plastic bags? You can reuse some of them by lining the trash can, picking up after the dog, lunch bag, and to carry misc. items but what about the other 100-1,000's of bags? Do you recycle them at your local grocery store? If so, where do they go? DO they get recycled? I read (at reusablebags.com) that 1-3% of the bags get recycled. Many of the bags from recycling bins do not get recycled. SOOO...what to do?

One summer my grandmother (who lives in FL) came to NH to visit our family. She had learned a new craft and wanted to share it with us. We each received a large bag. She had gathered about 73 plastic bags, cut them, strung them together and crocheted them into a reusable bag. I BEGGED her to show me and I have been crocheting plastic bags ever since. Friends and family save their plastic bags and I go to the local grocery stores (there are 6 of them) and gather plastic bags there as well. I recycle about 5,000 plastic bags a year making hundreds of products. They are quite strong and sturdy. I have carried home fruit and veggies in mine from the store. Every time I use one large bag I am reusing about 73 plastic bags!

Please consider my site the next time you need a unique gift that will not only be a big hit but be good for the environment as well. I have several colors and sizes to choose from (check out my slide show below for some examples).

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Kathi

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Warner Fall Foliage Festival

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So many bags...so little time!