Plastic Bag Bag
by eleighb
Saving the world one grocery bag at a time!
There’s a trend in crafting that involves up-cycling reusable materials into fashionable and functional items. In the spirit of recycling, I’ve crocheted a beach bag out of plastic grocery bags! Thanks to my parents and Joe and Haidee for the bag donations! 
Most of the pictures can be clicked on for a larger view.
I’m often overrun with plastic bags. Sometimes they get re-used, sometimes they don’t.
To start, flatten out a plastic bag as neat as you can.
Fold it in half over and over (hot dog) until it is approximately an inch to an inch and a half wide.
Cut it into 1 inch strips.
When unrolled, the strips should be circles of plastic.
Loop the strips together and pull tight.
Continue looping the strips together to make a long chain. This makes up the plastic bag “yarn” (Plarn).
A big ball of PLARN!!!
The bottom of the beach bag.
Progress! Incorporating different color bags.
Complete beach bag! If it gets sandy, I can just rinse it out!
Click here for the bag pattern.
Nice tote bag you crocheted! Thanks for the link back to my blog site and hope you’ll try another of my recycled bags soon.