
These are both Paton's Jet, colourways that apparently never made it to production. Yum.
And here is some daggy, functional crafting for the new house - plastic bag dispensers. No pattern for these, I just used my biggest crochet hook, made a base circle leaving a hole to pull the bags through, then just kept double crocheting (I think?) around in a spiral until it seemed long enough. Both are made from a chunky wool hand dyed by Happyspider. They were pretty quick, the smaller one took a couple of hours for a not at all regular crocheter.

The smaller one is full of recycled bread bags - various family members keep these for me and we use them to clean up after the dogs on our walks. The bigger one is full of supermarket plastic bags - I hope we have finally stopped acquiring these but there are enough miscellaneous bags around to keep this dispenser going for a while.
3 comments:
i love the daggy functional crafting. One of the best thing I ever made early on was a plastic bag holder. I adore it even now!
Ooh, that Patons Jet looks nice. I've never seen it before. I don't think we have it over here. :(
Oh, I am going to reach through the internet and steeeeeal that dark skein!
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