Check out all of the awesome stuff that you can make with plarn, including how to make plastic yarn in the first place.

Plarn (or plastic yarn) is an eco-friendly way to turn excess plastic shopping bags into other useful items like this plarn coaster.

Learn how to turn a plastic bag into a continuous piece of plastic yarn perfect for zero cost crafting with just a few cuts. A video tutorial makes it easy!

Plastic bag yarn is a great way to upcycle your plastic bags into something beautiful and useful. Learn to make plastic bag yarn (plarn).

How to make Plarn from grocery bags for crochet and other yarn arts. You can use any plastic bag too.

Learn how to turn a plastic bag into a continuous piece of plastic yarn perfect for zero cost crafting with just a few cuts. A video tutorial makes it easy!

Learn how to make plastic thread using plastic yarn (plarn). This plastic thread is excellent for sewing plarn creations together or attaching buttons.

A great way to us plastic bags for recycling is to learn how to make plarn! Here are plenty of plarn projects where you crochet with yarn made from plastic bag

Make a Basket Out of Plastic Bags: No knitting or crochet required, just some sewing and braiding. It's not the quickest project - it'll probably take you a couple days to make one, but the results are well worth it, I think! And I already made all the assembly mistakes so you don't…

Share the Sweetness2 2SharesIs anyone else excited about Earth Day? I know I’m super early….. I have several transitions and needs happening in my life that need fulfillment…. which lead me to this project. 1) The Etsy store has been a little slow after Christmas. Hoping for big Easter Bunny Hat boom! {fingers crossed} 2) Speaking… Read More How to make Plastic Yarn {Upcycled Grocery Bag Craft}

Learn how to turn a plastic bag into a continuous piece of plastic yarn perfect for zero cost crafting with just a few cuts. A video tutorial makes it easy!

How to Knit a Bag Out of Plastic Bags!: Here are some step by step instructions on how to knit your own bag- made out of plastic bags!

Learn how to make plarn using old plastic tablecloths! Use this amazing, colorful plastic yarn for all kinds of amazing projects.

Here's how I like to make plarn (PLastic yARN) for The Ultimate Recycled Market Bag pattern. It works great for me, and the 1/2" (1 cm) width makes it fairly easy on the hands and arms when working it up. This is double-stranded plarn, produced by joining loops cut from plastic bags. 1. The easiest type of plastic bag to work with is the kind you get at the grocery store. It’s not very stretchy, and it’s fairly thin. Don’t use produce bags--they’re too thin.* And be sure your bags are not biodegradable. 2. Smooth the bag out flat. Fold it vertically 3 times, smoothing flat each time, until you’ve got it about 1” (2.5 cm) wide. 3. With scissors, snip off the bottom seam and the handle section at the top. Save as packing material, or recycle. 4. Starting at one end of your folded bag, snip off 1/2” (1 cm) sections. When unfolded, each will be a loop. 5. Connect the loops the way you would connect rubber bands: a. Lay out two loops with the left loop overlapping the right one. b. With your left hand, reach through the left loop, come up under the right loop, and grasp the overlapping right end of the left loop. c. Then pull it back the way you came: down through the right loop and back up through the left loop, until tight--with plarn, don’t pull too tight or the loops will break. 6. Keep adding loops on the left, using the last-connected loop on the right, making sure the two sides of each loop are even. You can hold the last-made knot in your right hand to help with this. 7. Roll the connected loops into a ball, and you have plarn! * Note: produce bags are too thin for plarn unless you use 2 loops together when you connect them. ----- You can find more tips and variations for The Ultimate Recycled Market Bag pattern in the following posts: Saving Your Hands and Arms When Using Plarn Cotton Yarn Market Bag T-Shirt Yarn Market Bag My Old Crochet Hook

סרטון הדרכה חדש! שימוש חוזקר בשקיות צבעוניות להכנת משהו שימושי וצבעוני. הדוגמה הזאת היא דרך חמודה לעשות שילובי צבעים שונים עם השקיות שיש לכם. העלתי בעבר פוסט על תחתית עגולה סרוגה משקיות בדוגמה דומה, אבל הפעם הכנתי גם סרטון הדרכה. אני משתדלת בזמן האחרון לצלם את העבודות, לא רק בתמונות סטילס אלא גם בוידאו, כי… Read More »עיגול גראני – תחתית סרוגה משקיות ניילון

A few years ago I saw a purse made out of shopping bags other recycled plastic bags. They had been layered together, was very interesting. So since I am always trying to find ways to entertain my…