Recently I was visiting my sister's apartment. We were hanging out, watching tv, playing Scrabble and what have you when her roommate came home. He sat down with us with some knitting needles, which I didn't think much of. It was about 10 minutes before I realized that he wasn't using yarn to knit with. He was cutting strips of plastic bags. Like the kind you get at the grocery store. And he was knitting with them. "Wow," I said, "Um...what are you making there?" He looked up and said, "I don't know yet. Maybe a jacket!" I said," Wow. Cool." And my sister gave me a dirty look. When he left the room a little later she said, "Why did you have to encourage him? Now he's gonna want to hang it on the wall or something." I apologized and told her, "I'm sorry. I really didn't know what other polite reaction to have to someone knitting things out of plastic bags." Yesterday I went to my sister's to drop some things off and sure enough, there on the wall was hanging a knitted piece of plastic. It isn't a jacket though. It's maybe half of a scarf. Or a potholder. Although if you tried to use it as a potholder you'd probably wind up with third degree burns.