According to worldoceansday.org 8 million tonnes of plastic waste ends up in our oceans, including millions of plastic bags. I do keep and reuse our plastic bags but today I am going one step further turning my plastic bags into plarn- plastic yarn.
I decided I needed a new plarn fruit bowl.
I used an 8mm crochet hook and crocheted a circle in the round increasing gradually using single crochet. When I reached the size base I wanted, I switched to double crochet in each stitch around. I used 10 plastic bags and my plarn ran out on the very last stitch (can you believe it??). I used 4 white bags to crochet around the top.
Love it!! It came out classy 🙂
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Thank you!
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Reblogged this on DaniellaJoe's Blog and commented:
Love it!!!
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That’s creative!
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Thank you. I love trying out new things. They don’t always work, but I was lucky with this one!
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Beautiful. Love it. We have “shopping bags” here that the local ladies crochet from plastic bags. The are so nice and strong and versatile. 🙂
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I was amazed at how strong this came out! I was carrying around a pile of largish apples and it was great. I want to make some market bags next.
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They are amazingly strong once you cut them and redo them, specially in crochet. And they hardly wear out, so have them for a very long time. 🙂 Have fun making market bags, I am sure they will be extremely popular.
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Magnificent! And well done, you! I am obsessed with recycling and even re-use my plastic supermarket fruit bags (the see-through ones) until they fall apart. For my general shopping I’ve got my own canvas bags, which I’ve had for years. Very little in my house gets wasted, including garden waste, which is made into compost or taken to local amenity tip for recycling there.
You’ve got so many wonderful ideas here that I don’t know which one to try first!
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Sometimes I use plastic bags for gloves or as a shower cap to keep my hair dry! There are so many ways you can reuse them
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We use our old dog’s large plastic food sacks to put our garden waste in and take it to the local recycling site.
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What a great idea! I have tons of bags! May have to try this!
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Great idea, I have thought of using bags to make a rug but not a bowl, looks good!
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I was going to make a rug but got impatient and started changing my idea as I went. I imagine you would need a lot of bags for a rug. I used about 14 just for this.
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Hehe, sounds like me, I’m the most patient when it comes to crafting, hence my love of crochet over knitting!
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That is a lovely fruit basket – a wonderful re-use idea. I have made floor rugs using these bags too.
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Thank you! I would like to try that. How many bags would you need to make a rug?
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I’m not actually sure how many bags I used. I remember I found a bit of a stash when I was Spring cleaning last year … probably about 50 or something. I posted about the project a few times on my blog – this was the post when I finished the rug :
https://oaktreesstudio.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/upcycled-message-mat-of-hope/
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Thank you for the great tutorial. I can’t wait to try this!
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That’s come out really well. I may have to try plarn myself (once I’ve finished mastering the basics of crochet)
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I will have to keep this in mind if I ever find myself overloaded with plastic bags! Thanks for posting, loved how you showed how to make the bags into pieces able to be crocheted!
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