20 years ago a friend gave me a bag made from plastic bags as a gift. I was intrigued and inspired as I love products that support the environment by reusing discarded materials. More than 15 years ago I asked another friend to teach me to crochet and help me find a pattern to use for the bags I wanted to create. Since that time I have made more than 2000 bags and love doing it. I like finding new plastic bags to use and have found that the best gift a friend can give me is often their recycled bags, especially unique ones. By making the bags and with the work I did with a group that crocheted sleeping mats for homeless people, I have kept more than 160,000 bags out of the trash cycle and transformed them to another use. Over the years, I have added larger beach bags, cross-body bags, wine bottle bags and kitchen scrubbies to my inventory. I look forward to the day when my business can no longer exist because stores are no longer giving plastic bags away, and we have learned to
