Hello, and welcome!
I know that Christmas is still a few months away, but I always love to start preparing for the holiday season early - and when I can combine that with getting rid of yarn scraps? Even better!
My mother in law gave my daughter a bag of yarn scraps a while ago. She used some of them, but then told me that she didn't want any of the red ones. So I was left with a host of little balls of red yarn.
I decided to combine them with white (from my own stash of scraps) and create a candy-cane inspired gift bag.
While I love crochet, every once in a while I miss knitting too, so this was the perfect little project.
I used circular needles and knitted the bag as a spiral, randomly alternating the two colors, knitting with the red yarn and purling with the white yarn.
Once it was done, I closed the bottom (hand sewing) and added a cord made of twisted red and white yarn (threaded through the top of the bag using a large eyed needle).
It's not a very large gift bag, but it's perfectly sized for a book or two - which is just convenient since books are one of my favorite gifts to buy).
It's also a great way to create a reusable gift bag - therefore contributing to the reduction of gift paper waste.
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