Newspaper yarn project 1: The Donut/Bagel

The Donut is a beanbag made entirely out of newspaper. 

The Bagel is an "economy" version of the donut which uses half the amount of newspaper and needs to be stuffed. 

Stuffing material can be styrofoam packing peanuts (which are abundant in many companies dealing with shipping/receiving goods; and are often discarded), plastic bags, old clothes, soft toys, etc. The newspaper acts as a "cage" to hold and contain the stuffing material. 

Yarn needed:

For Donut- At least 500 pages/strips

For Bagel- At least 250-300 pages/strips

Instructions:

E-wrap cast on and e-wrap stitch until almost out of yarn. 

This is how The Donut looks like after knitting and during bind-off.

Leave at least 150 cm of yarn to bind off. Use any method of bind-off except gathered/drawstring bind-off.  

For Donut: Starting from one end of the knitted tube, keep rolling the material onto itself. 

For Bagel: Prepare stuffing material. The plastic bags of packing peanuts were heat-sealed using an iron. Place baking sheet over plastic bags before ironing to prevent the plastic from burning.

Bags of packing peanuts, ends knotted.

Wrap newspaper tube over and around stuffing material. Using yarn end, sew up both ends of newspaper tube.

Stuffing the Bagel. Bottom view.

From above