Bored?
Got empty jars?
Handy with yarn and a crochet hook?
Short on cash money?
Need a last minute gift?
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| Completed orange jar jacket; yellow in progress. |
Crochet jar jackets* are the answer to all of your needs. Neither time nor money intensive, these little jobbies are the perfect gift for your craft- and environment-loving friends (cough, cough... former OSW girls, you would each be the recipient of one of these babies this Christmas if we lived on the same side of the world).
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| Mood lighting? |
Making good use of empty glass jars (jam jars, pasta sauce jars, what have you), these are super simple to pull together and have lots of uses: candle holder, pen storage, ummm... spare change jar? Again, what have you.
I basically followed these instructions from Annemarie's Crochet Blog (the English ones, not the German. I can only handle learning one foreign language at a time). The only change I made was to crochet the last row thusly: single crochet, single crochet, single crochet decrease, repeat until end of row. This made it hug the jar a little better at the top where it narrows slightly.
* Not to be confused with the Jug Jacket.