#plarn

I've been at this for like a month or so. maybe a little more. to test the material and it's colors, more than anything, but also was intended as a gift.

I'm not sure if I can give it as a gift anymore. maybe I can keep it to honor these memories, and the love.

once it's done, I'll credit the artist properly. I used the illustration and edited it to limit the colors and make it cross stitch friendly.

Image from String Theory

This one's for my fellow crafters with a bunch of plastic shopping bags sitting in their pantry. (We all have that bag of bags, let's be real.)

Single-use plastic shopping bags pass through our lives in moments, but they last FOREVER in a landfill. Instead of leaving them to take up space in your home or throwing them away, and if you don't have a recycling location locally that takes shopping bags, you can turn them into plarn! Some of you may remember this from the 2010s, when people were turning grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless, reusable shopping baskets, and all sorts of things.

There are a few different ways to make plarn, depending on how much effort you want to put into it. Here are some tutorials to help you get started, in video and text form:

The Spruce Crafts - How to Make Plastic Yarn of Plarn From Shopping Bags

String Theory Yarn Co - How to Make Plarn (Plastic Yarn)

Needlepointers - How To Make Plastic Yarn (YouTube)

Use Old Plastic Grocery Bags To Crochet A Handsome & Practical Market Bag, designed by Change Path Crochet 🌎🧶

Pattern: 👉 https://tidd.ly/3lk7NqQ

I've always wanted to do a project with plarn, so why not now? This is about 8 grocery bags processed into plarn.

Starting a new crafting project for the 12MonthsOfCrafting subreddit.

May’s theme is upcycling, so I’m going to make reusable bags out of plarn from grocery sacks.

Pattern by ChiarosCurosity (sp?), bought from Etsy