Recycle!

I do not own an iPod. But I'm half-tempted to get one, just so I can knit this cute little case for it. (Does anyone else see the irony in using cassette-tape ribbon to make a case for an MP3 player?)

I have a ton of cassette tapes. Oodles. I still play a lot of them, too, because my nearly-fourteen-year-old car has a tape deck in it. (No CDs for me when I'm on the road! It's mix tapes all the way, baby!) But there are several tapes in my collection that I know I will never play again--several that make me cringe with "good grief, what was I thinking when I got that?" whenever I encounter them. There's no longer a market for used cassettes, so I was thinking that one day I'd end up throwing these out. But now, after seeing that little iPod case, I'm inspired to knit those unloved cassette-tape ribbons into something fun. Definitely not a garment (too itchy!), but maybe a tote bag. Hmmmm.