I was so excited to receive these unique vintage red newspaper bags from an on-line friend Judy. She saved them from her delivery of a newspaper and mailed them to me. I cut about 30 bags into 1 inch wide strips using this newspaper plarn-making tutorial for the narrow bags.

Here is a photo of one of the long narrow newspaper sacks I recycled into yarn aka plarn.

The water bottle holder was crocheted using this free plastic water bottle holder pattern. I crocheted only 6 rounds of the triple-crochet netting portion as I used a N (9 mm) crochet hook which created a long holder. Therefore I was able to do one less round of the netting and still get a big enough holder for this 20 ounce reusable water bottle that stands 8-1/2 inches tall.

Just as a reminder, if you aren’t a recycled crafter, you can purchase this crocheted recycled plastic water bottle holder here.