Monday, July 16, 2012

Plarn

I have an interest in plarn.

You know you go to the grocery store and you get to the counter and ah! You forgot you reusable grocery bag and so they hand you a plastic one. (You should get paper because at least that's recyclable) And slowly those plastic grocery bags accumulate.

But! I had a great idea to make a handbag out of plarn. It's slowly in process, and if you haven't work in some good callus' on your fingers this stuff is like working with razor wire. In a good environmental loving way.

Here's a short photo tutorial about how to make plarn.

 Lay your bag out flat and cut off both ends and then into strips
 You will have circles so lay them over each other and pull one through the other

And then gently tighten! If your strip is too thin or if you pull too hard your plarn will snap : o