Fused Plastic Rain Coat

Step 2 Fuse the plastic to create plastic "Fabric"

The next step is to fuse the plastic bags together to create your more durable plastic "fabric" to create the rain coat.

I used large bags from Billa and Despar supermarkets in Italy, which are about twice the size of the typical grocery bag in the US. You might have better luck with bags from Target or another department store.

I trimmed the top of the handles and the bottom of the bags off and opened them up to get large tube.

With the yellow bags, I wanted to use the handles as part of the torso that wraps up over the shoulders, so I split the bags in the front to get large flat plastic sheets.

I stacked 3 layers and fused them between a cardboard and paper. I used cheap sketch pad paper, but would prefer parchment or even larger rolled craft paper.

The white bags where for the sleeves and I only had two, so I left them as tubes and carefully fused the two bags together with the logos aligned for a 4-layer fabric.

There a plenty of good instructables on the basic of fusing plastic bags into plastic fabric, I suggest doing a quick search for your favorite if you want more directions on this step.