Looking for an inexpensive handmade reusable market bag? Check out my review of the Go Green Market Tote by Jen’s Tangled Threads.
How many times have you got to the grocery store and realized you forgot your reusable bags? Or how many times have you needed to bring an appetizer/wine/snacks to a friend’s party in a plastic shopping bag because you don’t have anything else? Does your daughter need a bag to carry her ballet shoes to class? Does your husband need a sack for his lunch?
There are SO many different uses for a reusable market bag.
The Green Market Bag by Jens Tangled Threads that I think everyone could find a reason to want to buy one! The Green Market Bag (which also comes in a rainbow of different colors) is eco-friendly, easy to stuff in your purse, durable, and very soft. I’ve used it to carry groceries, snacks to a party, and breast pump supplies!
The story behind Jen’s Tangled Threads goes like this:
I started crocheting a number of years ago. I’m the type of person who can’t just sit and watch tv. I have to be doing something with my hands. I used to do counted cross-stitch, but that was too limiting for me. I’m not an artist who can draw or do color shadings, so I couldn’t make my own patterns.
One of my favorite book series has these female characters who wore beautiful embroidered shawls. Naturally, being the fan girl I am, I wanted to make one for myself, but I couldn’t sew. My mom is a fabulous sewer and even makes the costumes for my son’s dance studio. But I couldn’t convey to her in words what I wanted in a shawl. Then I saw a beautiful lace shawl and it was crochet, and I told myself – I’m going to learn to do that. I bought a book and some yarn and mastered the basics, then jumped straight into making lace shawls. I’ve sold a few to fellow fan girls and I was told I should open an Etsy shop. Well, no one wanted to buy a $200 shawl that was designed for a very select group of people. So, I shut down the shop and started learning to do other things. Eventually I found ruffle scarves and slippers, and I haven’t looked back.
The name is two-fold. One, I view crocheting and knitting as the artistic tangling of yarn. Everyone tangles differently, but it all comes out to be a work of art. Secondly, I am a perfectionist. When I found I have made a mistake, I will frog (or tear apart and unravel) my project until I get to the point of the mistake. Often this leaves a huge tangle of yarn in my lap that has to be untangled and rewound onto the skein. Hence – tangled threads.
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