out of used grocery bags!
I uploaded the pic from my phone, now I have to get it on photobucket and I'll post it. It came out really cool!
I made a hobo bag
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Joia
, Apr 01 2009 01:11 AM
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Posted 01 April 2009 - 02:37 PM
so I was reading mothering magazine and there was this article about crafting and they were commenting on making a rag rug from old jeans. Here I am, looking at a pair of old jeans my husband wants to donate to good will... so in the pic, the chick was crocheting it... I can crochet and I was like, "I can do that!" hence the "rag rug" thread...
So I go to you tube because it's where I learn everything and I do a search for rag rug and I come across this:
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then I scroll down on the side and saw this:
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I then watched this:
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and then I found a pattern that I liked when I watched this:
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I cut up 3 grocery bags full of grocery bags and strung them together.
I followed the pattern, but with a size n hook, so It's pretty big, but perfect for toting groceries home!
So I go to you tube because it's where I learn everything and I do a search for rag rug and I come across this:
[ame][/ame]
then I scroll down on the side and saw this:
[ame][/ame]
I then watched this:
[ame][/ame]
and then I found a pattern that I liked when I watched this:
[ame][/ame]
I cut up 3 grocery bags full of grocery bags and strung them together.
I followed the pattern, but with a size n hook, so It's pretty big, but perfect for toting groceries home!
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Posted 01 April 2009 - 04:47 PM
wow your bag looks great!
i've only made small baskets out of grocery bag plarn and used a K hook (it was a rainy day and i got bored along with slightly annoyed that grocery bags have taken over a whole cabinet but only had my f-k hook set)
i've only made small baskets out of grocery bag plarn and used a K hook (it was a rainy day and i got bored along with slightly annoyed that grocery bags have taken over a whole cabinet but only had my f-k hook set)
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Posted 01 April 2009 - 04:59 PM
I'm sure with a smaller hook, it would be tighter and stiffer and more like a basket, than a bag... I dunno, I never worked with the stuff before. I had heard of the crocheted "plarn" bags and baskets, but I never gave it enough thought on how to string it all together to make said plarn...
walmart bags and produce bags are the softest and easiest to work with.
walmart bags and produce bags are the softest and easiest to work with.
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Posted 01 April 2009 - 11:11 PM
well, I didn't just slip through the stitches, I had to use my finger to get it to go over, I don't know if that makes sense... like instead of pulling through, I used my finger to slide the "plarn" over, then I pulled through the second loop...
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Posted 01 April 2009 - 11:22 PM
next time, I may get all anal and separate out all the brown, then the brown with writing, white, white with black writing, etc... then I can do more of a pattern... but I actually did it "random" on purpose, and I had my kids "help" by opening the rings for me to thread them together, so they made it completely random. I used some clear bags too, which add their own flavor...
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 04:00 PM
the second and third youtube videos joia posted show how to cut the bags and loop them together. if you can't view the youtube vids here's a still tutorial
plarn instructions
plarn instructions
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 04:06 PM
it's in the second and third youtube videos.
I folded the bags sideways, like laying them flat and folding in half side to side, not top to bottom and you keep folding until they are about 2 inches, then you cut off the top and the bottom. when I first started out, I used the handles and the bottoms, just by tying them in, but it was a big pain in the ass for me to work the knots into the "back" so I only used the strips. once you have the bag cut in strips, each strip is actually a loop. I don't know what it's called, but you just thread the loops into each other to make a chain, I used to do it with those jelly bracelets when I was a kid.
The old lady shows it pretty well, but the hippy chick also shows it in the 3rd video...
I took aqll the scraps to my local grocery store and put them in theis plastic bag recycling bin.
I folded the bags sideways, like laying them flat and folding in half side to side, not top to bottom and you keep folding until they are about 2 inches, then you cut off the top and the bottom. when I first started out, I used the handles and the bottoms, just by tying them in, but it was a big pain in the ass for me to work the knots into the "back" so I only used the strips. once you have the bag cut in strips, each strip is actually a loop. I don't know what it's called, but you just thread the loops into each other to make a chain, I used to do it with those jelly bracelets when I was a kid.
The old lady shows it pretty well, but the hippy chick also shows it in the 3rd video...
I took aqll the scraps to my local grocery store and put them in theis plastic bag recycling bin.
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 04:35 PM
thanks! you beat me to it, you must have been posting it while I was still writing minethe second and third youtube videos joia posted show how to cut the bags and loop them together. if you can't view the youtube vids here's a still tutorial
plarn instructions
awesome site, thanks so much for posting it!
