Knitting Daily issued a Knitting Green Challenge for Earth Day. I decided to give it a whirl and came up with a creation. This is my earth friendly knit basket repurposing cotton from a chair slipcover and reusing gift ribbon.
The tools I used were scrap fabric, old ribbon, scissors and large knitting needles.
Casting on 16 stitches with my 12 mm needles and knitting 12 rows in garter stitch gave me a rectangular piece of knit cotton.
Using my recycled ribbon, I threaded a piece through each corner of the rectangle and tied a bow.
All four corners are tied and magically it's a basket.
It took only an hour to complete.
Lisa of Molto di Moda Designs also took this fun challenge. See her creativity here.
Happy Earth Day Knitting!
2 Comments:
I really LOVE your basket!! Great job! Thanks for linking to my post--you are too sweet. By the way...I'm going to STITCHES SOUTH tomorrow-CAN'T WAIT!
Thanks for sharing this on the Times Union Fiber Arts blog. I left a comment there, but thought I'd leave one here too, in case you didn't go back.
I am actually inspired to try this myself now.
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