Back from vacation

[firecat]

I took a trip to the Mendocino Coast and Mendocino County Fair / Wool and Fiber Festival over the weekend.

I had no net access, which means I'm no doubt woefully behind on my LJ friends list. I also have a lot of work to do today, so I won't be able to spend the time to catch up.

But if there are entries, conversations, invitations, and so forth that you especially want me to see, let me know by leaving a comment here.

Trip writeup and peectures of the coast and the sheepdog trials forthcoming!

Comments

[firecat]

Yeah, there was a lot of knitted/woven/quilted art displayed at this fair too (although not as much as at the San Mateo County Fair.

I have a book called Simple Crochet that describes how to crochet rugs out of strips of cotton recycled from old clothing. I've even seen instrux on how to make them out of plastic grocery bags, but I don't know how much I'd like that...

[kyubi.livejournal.com]

I once purchased a rug/mat crocheted from bread bags from eBay (out of morbid curiousity; I think it may have shown up on "Who Would Buy That?" or a similar venue). I was distinctly underwhelmed by it -- it fell apart fairly quickly under very light usage (outdoors, where the furry plasticovores couldn't gnaw on it). Given how much lighter plastic grocery bags are (and the fact that some of them are designed to photodegrade), I'm not all that optimistic about their viability as a crochet material.