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The ladies of the Knitty Gritters club at the Lake Branch Library are turning trash into treasures. They are knitting and crocheting items from plastic grocery bags.

“Any knitting or crocheting pattern can be used with plastic,” said Sally Lenke.

Through Lenke’s son, she connected with a Massachusetts woman named Cara Taylor. “Her philosophy is this is the only plastic she wants to see,” Lenke said.

Taylor’s Web site, carataylor.com, offers a multitude of items made from plastic bags. She offers anyone who sends her 50 plastic bags a change purse in return.Lenke has been sending the plastic grocery bags to Taylor. She has a change purse that has endured much use and washings over the last three years. The items made with the plastic bags are durable......

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