I enjoy making the bags with "plarn".  It is about the only crocheting I do, mostly because it doesn't require that I decipher the code that crochet patterns use.  That makes my head hurt!  But using the plarn to make the bags is somewhat mindless and relaxing for me. I use the rings looped together to make the plarn, but frequently the loop will break when tightening them , so I just knot it back together.  I figure I'm using something that would have been thrown away to make something I'm just using for toting things, so I don't stress out about it much.  The one thing I've learned about the plarn shopping bags is that the handles s-t-r-e-t-c-h with use, so I've had to adjust to making them shorter than I think they should be! And I love finding different colored bags to use, and combining for stripes and etc.  The Schnucks grocery here always uses pink bags during October (Breast cancer awareness month) so I ask friends to save theirs for me during October.

plarn is the name coined for recycling plastic bags (from stores) into "yarn" for craft projects. plastic + yarn  = plarn  :)

With trying to get settled after moving and just life being crazy in general, I haven't had much time to sit down with my yarn.  It is a good thing that I was able to get that baby blanket finished before the move or it might not have been finished in time!  I have been itching to get my hands on some yarn lately.  Now that the weather is finally turning cooler, I might have to finish those slippers that I started quite some time ago.  It is hard to even think about crocheting slippers when it is 100-and-way-too-hot!