Crocheted Box from Recycled Yarn
In addition to the blue & white wool sweater I bought at Goodwill for the yarn, I also purchased a 99 cent pink cotton sweater. The sweater was awful, but the yarn was a lovely variegated pink with gold thread. It was a bear to unravel, but it yielded many balls of the pink cotton, which I then crocheted into a box using a pattern from Crochet Today magazine (basically five squares of single crochet, 20 stitches by 20 rows, with three strands of the cotton held together, then sew the squares together). There's enough yarn left after doing the large box for me to make a smaller one to hold scissors and crochet hooks; that's the weekend project.
Crocheted Box from Recycled Yarn
In addition to the blue & white wool sweater I bought at Goodwill for the yarn, I also purchased a 99 cent pink cotton sweater. The sweater was awful, but the yarn was a lovely variegated pink with gold thread. It was a bear to unravel, but it yielded many balls of the pink cotton, which I then crocheted into a box using a pattern from Crochet Today magazine (basically five squares of single crochet, 20 stitches by 20 rows, with three strands of the cotton held together, then sew the squares together). There's enough yarn left after doing the large box for me to make a smaller one to hold scissors and crochet hooks; that's the weekend project.