♻️ Making Plarn Yarn from HDPE #2 Grocery Bags to Crochet With Totes Bags Etc Recycle Upcycle GemFOX
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- I did not pioneer this technique. I learned it in the 80's from a documentary about how some African countries were coping with pollution from modern, western influence and from being industrialized. As raw materials become harder to obtain and more strictly regulated, waste product is the new raw material. As our ancestors did, I try to use what is readily available in my work whenever possible.
I did not use a pattern. I improvise the design and just crochet until it's the size and shape I like.
Obviously, please do not use degradable bags for this. I'm using HDPE (high density polyethylene) #2 plastic grocery bags that are still readily available in my area.
4mm hook. SC for the bottom. SC, CH1 for the top.
I used up about 125 grocery bags for the large tote once I added the handles. And I used up about 52 grocery bags for the smaller cord purse. Definitely freed up some space in my cabinets after years of accumulation ^_^
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Publix grocery/shopping bags cut into strips/loops, connected and wound into yarn (plarn), used for crocheting totes and other useful things.
I love that your video starts right off with the how to. No long introduction. Thanks.
I agree!! 🙌🙌
We do this to make sleeping mats for the homeless. They're durable, will help keep people off wet and/or cold ground.
great job.
Thank you for your thoughtfulness, kindness and generosity!! 🙏❤️
For over 20 years I've made bags using scraps of fabric left over from sewing. But I'd never thought of making a bag out of those annoying grocery bags. This is a great rainy day craft idea for me and my daughter.
I have a ton of empty bags at my place, grocery bags... last night I was bored and decided to give this a try. Boy does it ever work. I'm currently working on making a plastic mat for my bathroom so the crappy tiles don't get any more ruined than they already are.
This is actually gonna solve ocean pollution i swear. PLEASE lets make this go viral
A wonderful friend who crochets all the time (retired) gave a large one of these to me & my wife as a wedding gift along with many other yarn-crocheted items. This bag is now our favorite bag and we are amazed at how strong they are. Everywhere we go people remark on it (it's red, white and blue but otherwise the same). She says it takes her 11 hours to make one bag so if you get one as a gift, appreciate the time & effort that goes into it
Why anyone would thumbs down this is beyond me. This is a brilliant idea!
It’s the first time ever that I leave comment, just to let you know that this is the most incredible, genial and amazing work I’ve ever seen here on UA-cam. Wow. Thank you so much, you inspired me a lot.
This is awesome!!! Beyond cool! So many perks by doing this! You can make a waterproof beach bag! The bags are free, instead of spending $$ on yarn! You're recycling. It'll last a much longer time! No piling (purses/bags made from yarn tend to pile & wear out)! It'd be a lot sturdier & actually stand up, than a bag made from yarn! I could go on... I'm definitely doing this! Thanks!!
Be careful when using this as a beach bag though, I believe this is the type of plastic that may begin to melt if left in direct sunlight.
I purchased a couple of these bags made out of bags at a nursing home’s event over 10 years ago. I still use them to grocery shop. They are very sturdy.
At my old church they were knitting plastic bags in to sleeping bags for the homeless. I love seeing things reused like this.
More than 500 people voted this down?? I can't imagine anyone not liking this idea, even if they aren't crafty enough to make one themselves. These bags will last forever and look really easy to keep clean.
This is a great way to care for the enviroment while making something beautiful, thanks for this idea!
What a great way to upcycle these annoying bags. It’s better than ending up in the ocean.
Wow! I keep thinking of how to get rid of all those darned plastic bags! This is priceless!
Thank you!!
Its like those bags got reincarnated into another cooler bag.
Wow what a good way to get all the worthless plastic into something so handy and beautifull....future is looking a little beter if people have such great ideas.......thanks for sharing
Wow!
I wish my mom was still alive to see this!
Wow. I don't usually like the way recycled things end up looking but this looked really quite decent actually!
I’m inspired enough to learn how to crochet just to be able to make this! What a fabulous bag!
AWESOME idea for recycling your grocery bags. And remember that different stores have different colors. I think that they would make great gifts for your family and friends.
I like the grey Walmart bags for desaturated décor like modern farmhouse styles :)
That’s amazing! I have a ton of plastic bags. Sure beats putting them in the landfill, thank you
Friends in high school used to cut up and weave bags into new ones. Sometimes they’d mix up different colored bags for a stripe effect.
Almost 50 years ago, my sisters and I used bread bags to crochet a door mat and it lasted years. This style of use of plastic to help save the earth has always been available. It is the motivation to do so.
My Aunt used to do the something with bread bags when I was a little girl. She made pillows and pets.
We need more people in America on this!
This made me so happy, i cried a happy tear at the end. :'-) (I'm also a crocheter. Five years now).
My auntie has been doing this for decades now. She uses other kinds of plastic bags and also makes outdoor furniture covers and pillows.
Who would give this video a thumbs down ??????!!! and why ?????? This is an amazing idea. I’ve been making these for years but it’s good to share this for those who agree with saving the earth even if it’s one plastic bag at a time 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
A lady once told me growing up in Germany during the war her and her family learned to crochet with anything since resources weren’t an option. She has made the most beautiful items I have ever seen.
I was waiting for them to say, these are great for shopping for groceries
Cashier: "Do you need any grocery bags, Ma'am?"
Me: *swings fashionable bag over shoulder to display my superior grocery bag* "No, no thank you."
I don't know how to crochet, but if you taught a class and showed us how to do this, I would take it. Love this idea! 😍👍🏽
Crochet is very easy to learn! I suggest finding beginner videos and such :)
There are tons of tutorials for beginner crochet on youtube.
When I was in high school a friend of mine was crocheting small area rugs out of bread bags. She said her mother taught her how to do it. Back then bread came wraped in very colorful plastic bags. I can imagine how one of your baskets would look made out of Wonder Bread or Webers Bread wrappers. Love this idea
My mother made a braided rug out of bread wrappers. I'm going to try making plarn from bread wrappers and crochet a bag to start.
This is literally the most useful thing I've seen made from any plastic bag recycling video. That you soooo much.
Love this! I cannot find a place to recycle my bags anymore and I have a huge pile that I can't bring myself to throw away. I never thought to make them into yarn. Definitely going to knit a grocery bag now.
This is mind blowing. You CAN literally crochet with ANYTHING. crazy. Thank you for this cool video! Easy to follow great idea. Save our oceans!! Don’t throw away bags!
Jane A Exactly my thought! Would be cool to try this ^_^
I have 2 large round table mats crocheted by my Great Aunt many years ago using the cord from tyres!
I love this! ideas like this are what we need to help the environment
My late grandmother used to make these. This video made me think of her. 😘😢❤️
Beautiful work. Congratulations!
If i didnt know it was grocery bags o I would never have guessed! Such a beautiful simple bag that i would probably buy for the beach or shopping 😁 amazing job!!
Amazing recycling of worst polluters! Thanks for sharing
My Albanian grandmother used to make us different bags from plastic yarn! I always wondered how that was possible and now I know how! Thanks for an amazing video.
This is the best example I’ve seen of this method.... that tote is gorgeous! You’ve also provided the clearest instructions I’ve seen...... this is encouraging to me! Thank you for posting.
It's awesome that more people are doing this! My grandma originally gave me the idea personally.
This is sooooo sick!! Everyone should do this with their old bags instead of throwing them in the can. You can do a million things with this even making fashion clothing, a shower curtain and any curtain for that matter. Make little warm sweaters for small dogs or a sick pair of sandals! 😁😁😁 I love it
There are YT videos showing how to do this to make mats for homeless people!
I know i try and reuse every bag i can some become trash bag other are taken to thrift store or libraries. I seen some toss a bunch of bag that she just use for pie crust and was telling do take them they are dirty
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I’m trying this soon. I have tons of bags and that my bf brings home😒 Which I don’t like. I used reusable grocery bags. But this is awesome. Also they do this in Mexico.
BRILLIANT. This must be a mendatory course at school. God knows this will help the Planet breath a bit better. I will never throw plastic again.
thank you for helping our world. I will learn this too! ^^
looks like an Helen Kaminski bag from Australia. Kaminski bags are very expensive. Beautiful work. Extremely labor intensive. Great video 🤗😎😉
I love this. I only wish I found this video before they stopped single use plastic bags at all stores around me. I could of put so many bags to good use instead of them going into land fill.
This is the very best plarn video ever!!! Thank you so much for the video!
WOW!! You are awesome!! This is, by far, the most clever and amazing way to up-cycle plastic bags EVER!
WHAT A LITERAL CRAFTING QUEEN THIS IS SO COOL
I used to collect plastic bags for my great grandmother to crochet into rugs.
How incredible!!! EVERYONE should see and IMPLEMENT this!!! Thank you so very much!!!!!
Wow!!!! This is so inspirational that even today, being aired in 2016, you are still getting so many comments and positive feedback, congratulations. I definitely will be making one of these for my reusable grocery bags.
:) Thank you. The response has been overwhelming, unexpected, and very much appreciated :) My channel was intended for a small audience of friends and family, I never imagined it would spread like it has. Now that there're a lot of eyes on it, I'm rather embarrassed about my production quality, tbh :)
This is awesome, would be a fun and inexpensive way to teach my 7-year-old how to crochet! Thanks so much for making this video, really helpful.
First of all, thank you for giving credit to the originators of this idea. The bags are beautiful! And, who doesn't need another fashionable tote? Thanks for sharing.
I am familiar with your Poshmark closet. I just Stumbled on your channel and I have to say you are a creative genius!🙏🏽
ASMR version with no music would be heaven!!
When i watch this type of video, i m surprised how talent ppl have.so many thanks
I tried this one time and found it hard on my hands and the plastic bags hard to crochet. But you make it look easy, so I should give it another try especially since I have a lot of plastic bags. Thanks for your inspiration.
Try going up a size on the hook it may make it easier to work. I found that works on those huge chunky yarns they have now. I usually go up one millimeter than they say.
I’ll do that. Thank you for the tip.
don't worry, you are a baby, you aren't supposed to be able to do that yet :) :D
Wow! That's creative thinking of making plastic into a yarn to crochet something useful like bags out of plastic shopping bags. I have lots them, and thinking how to recycle them. Thanks to this video 😍👍👍❤️💜💙🧡🙏🙏👀
Hats off to your patience.
Hope you are spreading your good work and teaching this skill to other people with passion and need.
Thank you :) UA-cam is the most efficient way for me to share my work with the widest audience.
Eliminating the need for more plastic grocery bags by creating a reusable shopping bag and keeping plastics from clogging up the planet :) very impressive!!
I don’t crochet anymore but I adore this so so much.
Thanks for inspiring people to recycle
My grandma and her crochet/knitting group did this to make makes for the homeless. My grandma said she didn't like using plarn though. She said it was very difficult to work with. I'd love to try it and make some totes like this video did so I can use them for groceries!
I love this!!!! I have 100’s of bag in my desk at work because we get take out a lot and I can’t bring myself to just waste them so I save them!!! But I have no use for them, but no I do!!! Thank you soooooooo much for sharing this! ❤️❤️
I’m going to have to learn how to crochet again!
This is great way to put these bags to use other than just pitching them out. Now that plastic is on it's way out, this is highly recommended.
This is a very inspiring way to repurpose! Those bags are beautiful!
Very smart lady! Thanks for helping to save our world, one plastic bag at a time!!
This is awesome. Bags that last for years and years and makes grocery bags even useful. Way to go. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for such a great video! I want to make a bag for the beach, and plastic bags are a great idea. Will definitely try this!
This is totally brilliant!! Way to represent!
My mums shopping bag collection is going to be used.
So much better than 1 more use for bathroom trashcan, then send to landfill, this is true recycling...thanks for sharing.
I was thinking the same thing. Wish I knew how to crochet.
@@debbw6306 Plenty of videos on here to get you started. Just get some yarn, and whatever hook might feel most comfortable in your hands.
That is fantastic! Not only are you using something that would otherwise pollute our planet, but, they're beautiful and useful! thank you so much for this
This is amazing, you're brilliant, thanks for sharing!
Ésta si merece la pena ser felicitada. Uno no sabe qué hacer y desperdicia tanta bolsa, se vuelve basura para ahogar animalitos en el mar, para mantener daño hasta la generación de mis bisnietos. Es un gusto ver este trabajo y más aún compartirlo. Que Dios te bendiga y multiplique tus dones y habilidades! Que tu familia siempre te sea una bendición!
You should sell yours on Etsy! I really like them and others suggestions of laundry baskets, rugs, etc!!
Thank you, honey! I've sold several on Poshmark (@gemfox). They take a while to make, but if I find time to make a series of them, I'll surely post on Etsy. ^_^
From a fellow Publix shopper to another, Thanks for the inspriration! I made my first plarn bag. It's totally cute and functional.
Publix - where crafting is a pleasure! ^__^
Genius idea...now if I only had a Japanese wool winder...🤗
You can certainly wind it or ball it up by hand. But if you need a winder there are links in the description. Happy crafting :)
I’ve never been interested in any hobby type crafts of any kind. However, you are brilliant! It’s a terrific idea! Maranatha
Those shopping bags look amazing. How creative!
Wow, I am SO ABOUT TO SAVE OUR PLANET AND MAKE A BUNCH OF THESE, Thanks so much for posting this video!
That's what's up!
Thank you for an excellent video on how-to save the oceans from plastic bags!
Thank you for all the useful info! I've watched a few examples but this video was the only one that answered my questions about yardage, attaching new strands, etc. I've acquired so many plastic bags thanks to the pandemic and not always being able to use my own reusable bags.
Wow!, your bags/totes are really beautiful! I can see them being very handy as they are strong and large enough to carry many items. Plus with them being plastic I imagine when they get dirty you can just rinse them off. Really, really nice!! ❤️💜💚
Thank you so much. I would suggest wiping them with a damp paper towel, but I do not recommend washing them or getting them too wet, as water can get into the folds of the plarn but might have a hard time evaporating out. Thanks for your comment!
This is super smart!!! I hope more people make these as a way to reuse plastic (but not, you know, purposely buy plastic bags just for this.)
What a good idea 🎉🎉🎉💖 why the hell don’t the shops do this ?? I am giving this a go thanks your awesome
okay woah. 😧💖 i thought it was made of used yarn or jute, but this is brilliant! i get how it wouldn't wear as much as a jute one or yarn one too. and you could always disassemble later for other projects. defo gonna try this in the future. thanks for sharing!! 💖
You might find that if you disassemble something crocheted with plarn roving that the plarn gets easily fatigued. However, the spun plarn cordage (in another video I posted) holds up much better to being unraveled. :)
Now, this video was worth watching!
I love this so much...I just can't wrap my brain around crocheting!! Those of you that can are amazing 😊
My grandmother made place mats from used bread bags
She was ahead of her time!
I wonder, how did she do it?
These look incredibly awesome. I never would’ve guessed these were anything other than a straw bag. Well done.
This is great.The finished bag does not look like plastic 🛍
I am thankful that such an overlooked item can be very useful and functional for years to come. I will purchase a Japanese yarn winder.
Ses cool
The bag is simply beautiful, light to wear, resisting to be worn out, plus, preserving nature....Everyone should do something to keep nature well. I keep all my plastic for reuse, cups, bags for planting etc...Great video.
This is soo cool. I have crocheted for decades and I would have never have thought this up! Thanks fis the insight. I have alot of plastic bags. Never seen that winder before. That's really cool too. Thanks for sharing.
Same here