Placemat bag

So, I'm a little bit in love with bags of all sorts. I buy bags, and I make bags. I have bags full of bags. It's kind of an addiction. Probably not healthy. But they make me happy! Here is a bag I made a while back. Actually, I probably made at least 5 or 6 similarly designed bags, but was not smart enough to take pictures of them before I gave them away. I heard a couple years ago that you could make a cute purse out of a placemat, and I was intrigued. I'm sure there is a pattern on the web, but it didn't occur to me to look at the time I started making them, so I just kind of winged it, with some interesting results at first. Eventually I found something that worked and looked good to me. This bag went to one of my nieces for her birthday.

PS- I just googled "placemat purses" and came up with a bunch of pictures and tutorials. So there you have it. If you want to make one, do a search! (I could post my own instructions, but why reinvent the wheel?)

Bag of Bags!

I have had a request to post pictures of some of the bags I have made as my next crafty blog post. So here they are. I will just warn you- I have kind of an obsession with bags in general, and I like to make lots of them. So there may be many more bag pictures posted in the future.
Each of these bags really are a "bag of bags". This may sound like overkill, but I crocheted these bags out of "yarn" made of plastic shopping bags, which I cut into strips. They look a little uneven in areas because A) I didn't really know what I was doing, and B) when I switched between different colors of bags, the thickness of my "yarn" changed, and the tension changed too. If I do any more of these bags, I will have a better idea about the width to cut the strips, and the tension I should use to get a better, more even looking bag. On the front of the white bag you will notice that I attached a pom-pom, also made out of a grocery bag, to add decoration :).