Plastic bags cut into strips for Plarn
Plarn is my new favorite word. It’s also my new favorite thing. Ever. Quite a while ago, I switched to using reusable bags when I go to the grocery store. However, I still had this stash of plastic bags under my kitchen sink. I’ve been trying to find something creative to do with them, and finally…I found it!
I’ve been submitting stories from this website to the All Things Eco blog carnival. In reading through this past week’s newsletter, I found a website dedicated to taking materials like plastic bags and tape from cassette and VHS tapes and…wait for it…crocheting them! It is awesome. The website is called My Recycled Bags.com and the project I have decided to embark upon is the Ultimate Grocery Bag. In this project, you take plastic bags, cut them up to create Plarn (plastic yarn) and then crochet it to create a reusable grocery tote.
Ball of Plarn!
So far, I have successfully created the ball of plarn – next step is to begin the crocheting process. Stay tuned!
September 14th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
This looks cool Katie! When you make the bag, please write a review of it. The picture of the finished bag looks like the bottom isn’t wide enough to hold, say a gallon of milk (does that make sense?). I’m interested enough in this, I might even try it (mind you I don’t crochet!)
September 14th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Yeah…it says it’s about a foot across the bottom. I was thinking that I might try to make it according to her specifications and then once I understand how it fits together, I could write a pattern for a bigger one. Just started it tonight – we’ll see how things go!
September 24th, 2009 at 8:05 am
How’s that plarn coming? Got one big enough to fit over my head?
September 24th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Hardly! I just got the bottom done. Work sort of ate my life and every day when I get home from working with the little darlings I keep spontaneously passing out. I am also finding the plastic tricky to work with. It is taking MUCH longer than with yarn. I’m documenting the time and the tricks though. Hopefully I will get to work on it a lot this weekend and will post sort of a mid-way article and pics.