The latest bag is striped - very cool, although working hdc the entire bag gets very tiresome. I did, however, enjoy the change up in colour and I think it's probably my best bag yet.
The one really cool thing about using a beige or brown bag, especially one w/coloured letters, is that it looks exactly like rattan from a distance - I usually crochet whilst watching my girls' softball game, and I have people walking up to me all the time who just can't believe their eyes that they are looking at plastic grocery bags
I have really dipped a deep dip in the foray of paper beads as well. I started off using the leftover magazine bits from the boxes and making beads from long skinny triangles wrapped tightly around a toothpick. Sounds gross, doesn't it? But seriously, it is so kewl, I really liked them and proceeded to make dozens.. forgetting, as I did w/the magazine beads, that I wasn't done after creation - those little buggers each needed some individual attention from me in the way of lacquer, happy happy joy joy. Blech.
Then I discovered the real joy of the fake modge podge I mistakenly bought for my boxes - If I used that stuff to stick the layers together instead of glue, I got glued auto-lacquered beads, all in one step, woo hoo! Ok, it's an addition, I admit it - I first knew I had a problem when I was standing around my kitchen during a GS meeting last friday and could not allow any of the leftover construction paper to get thrown out - wouldn't you know it, I made beads out of that, dang, and they are really cool!
Yes indeed - a use for all those bits and pieces of construction paper you find lying around after some kid has blasted through your kitchen in the name of "mom i have this project for english class" - it's almost as good as having a dog lick up the crumbs off your floor.
Oh - I must mention; I did not give in to the calling of my addition alone - no, I dragged in any nearby adult that happen to be hanging at my meeting and got them engaged in the process of construction paper bit reuse. At least I wasn't the only one still peeling the lacquer off my fingers at 10:30pm later that night...
There's also the boxes projects - I am getting pretty good at the square-edged boxes, but I want MORE! I want to make round boxes, heart-shaped boxes, oval boxes... but I can't find a thing on the internet to help
At any rate, I tried my hand today at another round basket - little more success w/this one. It was a lot easier to weave than the original newspaper version, probably because I used less paper
In process. Easily finished w/in a few hours, however
Here's the two baskets I made from the delia catalog sans lacquer - the delia catalog has the cutest stuff in their catalog, so probably a good thing I chopped it up instead of shopping :)
The one of the left is the finished continuous weave basked; the one of the right was an experiment to see if I could make a round basket, swedish-style w/the basket weave pattern. I think it came out nice, although there is plenty of
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