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My boyfriend recently noticed my grocery bag dispenser, which I bought at the 'everythings $1' store years ago.  It's a simple square of cloth, sewn together like a tube with elastic on the bottom.  You put those plastic grocery bags in the top and fish one out with your finger from the bottom.  It's a handy little place to store grocery bags, which I prefer to recycle rather than throw them away. It really is a pretty cool cheap-ass gadget.  He marveled at it and said, "you could knit this". 

"Of course I can," I told him. 

So I chose the cheapest, gawdiest yarn I could find (Red Heart Super Saver, in Bikini) and cast on a tube.  Admittedly, I should have started with a few rounds of garter stitch, but I wasn't thinking at the time.  I fixed the resulting curl by putting in a drawstring at the top (it's Ticker Tape, in case you're wondering), from which it hangs.

Once I had about a foot of tube, I put in decreases and I tried to put ribbing on the last few rounds, but that was a bust.  Take a look at the detail.  I think if I had smaller needles for the ribbing, it would have come out better.  Also, I thought it was hard to switch from knits to purls on the double pointed needles. 

I'm moderately pleased with the result and may revisit the grocery bag dispenser as a project later.  I'm envisioning one in a cable knit...