Pop tab purse

When you drink a lot of soda from aluminum cans, you usually toss the empty cans into the garbage or recycling bin. However, you can salvage the soda can tabs off of the cans and use them as a crafting material to create interesting projects.

Ariila

Thank you so much for the interest in the instructions to make the pop tab purse. On my first purse I used a nylon thread #18 that is used for macrame. It's very slick and hard to work with. It made a great purse but then I used black yarn and it looks the same it's just holds the stitch tighter. I also learnt that I don't know how to tie off the nylon thread. Every knot I made slips back out. So I burnt the end of the thread like someone suggested but how is that going to hold my stitch. It…

Artist Instructor Melinda Schumacher demonstrates the simple crochet stitch to create a pop tab purse.

This whole thing started with a contest win. I won a book that showed different "green" items. You name it and this book had a picture of it made from something that had been something else originally. One of the pictures that really jumped out...

Ambrosio explores the shimmering beauty of chain mail creating visual textures in vertical stripes. She links shiny aluminum pop-tops with brass hoops creating a stunning evening bag.

mini crochet purse made with upcycled pop tabs and #crochet