Help save the planet and have fun knitting a whole range of useful items.  This sounds like a great idea and it is; all you need are some basic knitting materials (i.e. needles) and lots of plastic bags!

Everything in this book is knitted not with conventional yarn but with "plarn," plastic yarn made from cutting up plastic bags in a special way.  My only grumble about this otherwise excellent little book is the brief section on "preparing plarn."   This is the most important part of the book, after all, but it is relegated to a tiny space on the introduction page, sans diagrams of any kind.  Just a couple at the trickier stages would have been so much help. Once mastered, however, making yards of lovely plarn is fortunately simple enough.

The projects are wide ranging and include wearables such as a belt, jewelry, hair clip, purse and handbag, and household or office essentials such as a waste paper basket, desk tidy, flower vase, and even building blocks for a young child.  As this is a Twenty To Make book there are twenty projects, but there are also some pictures showing alternative colorways. You can have a lot of fun with this book and recycle not only plastic bags but also other plastic household waste when making some of the vessels.  Truly innovative and one for the keeper shelf.