Woven Plastic Bag Bag

Step 4 Making your "Yarn"

Take your plastic bag and lay it out flat, with the side seams tucked in. Cut off the bottom and the handles so that you are left with a plastic tube. You can weave these in later. Fold your bag length wise and cut it into pieces about an inch and a half wide. Once you unfold and cut these, they will be your yarn. (They will be loops until you make a small cut, the pictures will explain more)

Comments

[digsretro]

Why not leave the bag strips as loops? Then you can connect them at each end by looping them the way you can connect two rubber bands together. Also you'd be weaving with double the thickness of 'yarn' so the weaving would go faster, I'm assuming. Note: I haven't tried this, I'm just talking theory... The bag looks really cool, though, good job! Karin in Orlando

[dobbylvr]

I don't leave my bag strips as loops becasue that makes them half as long, and I love continuing my colors onto the other side of the loom, I think it looks better that way. You're right though, it probably would make the weaving a lot faster!

[digsretro]

Well you could just attach the same color loop so the color would continue. And something I thought about later is that you wouldn't have all those little tab ends where you tied on another strip, making it look a little bit cleaner. :)