Recycled Yarn-along

[Crochet Buffet]

I've been doing a lot of recycling/reclaiming yarn lately, and wondered if any of y'all would be interested in having a Recycle CAL?

All you'd need to do is reclaim yarn from an old UFO, or sweater, or what-have-you, and re-crochet it into something cute/cool/snazzy, etc...

I created a button:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...oujac/rcal.gif

[Chatty]

*Snatches cute button*

Does the first pineapple shawl I made count? It was made from a frogged sweater

Here's the thread

[Crochet Buffet]

Originally Posted by Chatty

*Snatches cute button*

Does the first pineapple shawl I made count? It was made from a frogged sweater

Here's the thread

Yes- it so totally counts! Just like my "lemonade" poncho into shawl counts!

[Catana]

I'm practically too busy recycling to make anything. Oh wait. I'm such an idiot. The freeform bag I'm working on is all from recycled yarns. I'm in!

[yarnnutamy]

I messed up on a Serafina shawl a few months ago, and I have been "recycling" it into 12" squares for HMB. I just couldn't make myself do another Serafina in that yarn. Actually, it took awhile before I did another Serafina at all.

[Chatty]

I did my first shrug, the post about it is here.

At least half the varigated I used came from a frogged throw, does it still count?

I've also started another shrug using yarn from a frogged sweater. The yarn is really lightweight and should make an interesting shrug.

New shrug

As you can see, I'm just starting but as fast as it works up I should be through in no time.

[allimac]

I know this CAL started eons ago, but I just recently got into recycling yarn. My first project is going to be a felted bookbag. I took apart a huge men's Gap sweater which gave me six good-sized balls of yarn. After making skeins with a nail board thingy, I washed it. Yesterday I finally started the bag. It is going to be similar to the FCEC felted bag, but much larger (I hope) and I will do the handles differently to support books. It is going to be for my 4 year old son and I when we take weekly trips to the library. I found some cool monogram charts in a Paton's leaflet, so I may incorporate one of those. I will post pics as soon as I can. I hope some new people will join this CAL to share things that they have made!

[donnalynn2]

Ooooh, I'm in! The pic I just put up today of Dot's Poncho was made from a frogged duster jacket that didn't turn out quite right... After Christmas I'm going to frog that sweater I made in a size 6XL and made Dot's Cardigan in the right size, 1XL! LOL

[Jimmie Lu]

Count me in I have a bunch of rows not stitched from a blanket just screamming to be made into something!!!I am having blog woes with buttons and have temporarily given up as I am too dumb to figure it out but I will put the button in my photo bucket until the day I either get help or get smart

[nataleeza]

I'd love to join, I'm making my sister a felted bag for Christmas and I'm using the yarn from an old jersey. But I won't be able to post anything until after she gets it though