Make a beach tote from plastic bags.
It's not exactly a beginner project for newcomer to the world of crochet, but creating a beach-friendly shoulder tote bag—sand falls right through the mesh, while the material is waterproof—both reuses that ball of grocery bags in your broom closet and is a guaranteed brag, err, conversation piece on the sand. Here's some help with
making the "fabric" (thanks, KCBlueGal), and here's an
overview of how it's done. (
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