Plastic Bags Easter Basket

This is an Easter basket woven  from recycled plastic bags. Easter and Earth Day  are close together this year which gave me the idea. When Easter is over, you can also use it for  other things like mail, toys, yarn and knitting projects, fruit, etc.

Step 1: Materials

Materials Needed:
Plastic bags. I am not sure how many bags I used but it was probably around 20.
I had some different colors of bags, the green bags were  from newspaper delivery on rainy days. The pink ones were from a charity donation bag. There are also many white bags used which you don't see, for the vertical pieces of the basket.
Needle and thread- a few steps will use hand sewing
Sewing machine
Iron- for the fused plastic
Wire- (optional)
Glue- (I used silicone construction adhesive)

Preparing your materials:
This bag uses two types of recycled plastic: fused plastic and "plarn". (plastic yarn)
For how to make fused plastic, see my tutorial here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Fusing-Plastic-Bags-the-eclipse-way/

For how to make Plarn, see this tutorial:  http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Plarn-Plastic-Bag-Yarn-For-Knitting-/
It's basically just long thin strips joined together.

Comments

[Helo1]

Thank you for shaking the step by step your art.