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1. What you will need: Hi guys, Welcome to this
tutorial on how to make a bean bag out of plastic
bags and recycled material. So the things you will need for this project is plastic bag. You could use whatever
color you want. I used about 220. You'll need scissors
or rotary blade and a rotary board to shred
to cut these into loops. You will also need a blender
to shred up your Styrofoam, which you will also need. You'll need as much
Styrofoam as you think will fill up a beanbag. You will need a crochet needle. It doesn't matter what
size you're using. I'm using size 3.5 millimeter
milliliters, millimeters. And that will create
this large of a braid. If you go smaller, these holes will be smaller. But just depending on the
size you cut up your loops. And then lastly, you will need some kind of liner material. I'm using this material, this black fabric I find on
the underside of bed frames. And that makes it
really nice liner. The reason why you want to make a bean bag out of
recycled stuff is because plastic bags are
non-recyclable as of right now. Styrofoam is non-recyclable. We can't mass
recycle plastic bags or styrofoam at the moment. There are facilities
that do that. There are very few right now. So this is a great project
to incorporate into your recycling life because plastic bags need
some kind of reuse. You can use them as plastic
bags again, which is great. But if you don't, if you're collecting too many, then why not make
them into a beanbag? Then also Styrofoam. There's not a lot of uses
for Styrofoam, but man, do they make fantastic beans
for their shredded up? Yes, definitely consider this as a really nice recycling project. And in the next video, I will show you how to
start your beanbag.
2. How to make plarn: Hey guys. In this episode I'm going
to show you how to make plots iron or plastic yarn. You're going to want to
use some kind of bag. It doesn't really
matter, but it would be nice if they were all uniform. So use all the same bag. I'm going to use
the same Kroger bag for the entire bean bag. Now, first I cut
off the bottom of the bag that way I can unfold it and flatten
it out completely. And then after I unfold it and flatten it out
the best I can, I'm going to fold it in half. And then I'm going to
fold it in half again. This just allows
the cutting process to be a little easier. You could fold it in
half again after this, but I typically cut off
the top right here, make it as straight as possible, and just make sure you
get all the fly leaves. If you miss a fly leaf, which I do believe I do here, you can cut it off afterwards. Now I'm going to fold it
in 1.5 more time maybe. Again. Then I'm going to
cut little loops. They don't look like
loops right now, but when I undo them, they will. I cut about an inch
to half an inch. Just make sure
they're all uniform. The closer all of these
pieces look to each other, the better the bean
bag will look. If some of your pieces aren't
completely the same like this bottom piece is a little jagged because I've
just where I cut it. You could either
get rid of it or you can keep it and use it. It's not going to
matter too much. But I'm just going to toss
it just because I want them all very uniform in this
particular beanbag. Here's that fly leaf, I'm
just going to cut it off. No biggie. You could also
keep it on and just sew it in or crochet
into the pattern. It probably wouldn't be noticeable if you don't
want to waste plastic. First, I put one loop
inside the other. I pulled that same loop, one of the ends
through the other end. And I'll show you this
a couple of times. Now. I don't want to pull
too tight immediately. So what I do is I
pull it and then I grab where the NADH is
and then I pull it again. Now I'm gonna show
you what happens when you pull it incorrectly. So here we go. I'm putting the loop
inside that loop. I'm grabbing one end and I'm about to pull it
through the other. And typically you want
to grab it by the knot. But today I'm not going to grab it by not I'm just
going to randomly grab it, pull it tight, and then I'm going to grab the
not employed again tight. But look what happens. One side is tighter
than the other. The other side is super loose. And that's what happens when
you don't grab by the not. So then if you pull too tight, oops, you rip it. But it's an easy fix. So all you gotta do is rip
off the part that was broken. So I'm just going to rip off that side and then just
take off the extra plastic. You might have to fiddle around
with it for a little bit. Then you want to grab your loop, a new loop or the same loop
as long as it's not broken. The key here is to
not pull so fast, so tight, or else you
are gonna break stuff. So I just wanted to show
you what happens when you pull too fast or if you
pull up the wrong spot. And then an easy way to fix it, you just rip off the
loop that's broken. Okay. So I grabbed by the knot and
I tightened it and then I grabbed at the naught
and then I tightened it again to make that not smaller. You could technically tie these back together
and use them. But because the bean bag, you're gonna be able to
see everything on it like four little animals. If you're crocheting animals, you can hide these extra
leaves inside of the animal, but the bean bag, you
can't hide it inside. So I'm gonna go ahead and
just get rid of those. So again, I grabbed by the
knot and I pulled like that. And then I didn't pull too hard. I went ahead and grabbed
closer to the knot and I pulled again
to tighten it. First a general tightening, a general not making and then grabbing closer to the not
to tighten it. That way. I'm not ripping anything.
All right. One more time. I put one loop inside the other. I put one end of the new
loop into the other end. And then I grad near the NADH and tighten
it. And then I'm done. In the next video, I'm going to show you guys
how to start your bean bag.
3. How to crochet the bean bag base: Hey guys, In this video we're going to start our bean bag. We're going to just do
the base in this video. First, you want to
make your string more string-like so you
could either twist it or pull it tight like I am. Then we're going to want to
twist one end like that. And then you're going
to pull the rest of the string through the
whole you just made. Pull it tight. You might have to
watch it a couple of times, but it's pretty easy. I'm using a three-point
needle in this video. If you have thicker plastic
minds about an inch wide, you could possibly go up l size. If you want to. I pull the needle into the hole and then I tighten
the hole around the needle. We are going to make
a magic circle that is the term used in crocheting. First, you're going
to yarn over, That's where you put the
yarn over the needle. And you're going
to pull it through the hole you made
at the beginning. Find the hole again, put your needle through,
yarn over again. Pull that through the
hole and you have two yarns on your needle, yarn over again and
pull it through one more time You
made your first loop. Congrats. Put the needle back in
the whole yarn over, pull through, yarn over again, pull through both those. You just made your second, put your needle into the
whole yarn over again, pull through and then
yarn over again. You just made your third, we're trying to make six here. Put it through the whole
yarn over, pull it through. You got to on your needle,
you're on over again. Pull through. You've got four, put it through your whole
yarn over, pull through, you got to on your needle again, yarn over, pull through. That's five, put in your whole
yarn over, pull through. You've got to on your needle, yarn over pull through. That's six count them, 123456. They look like little v's, so you should be able
to count six there. That's your first round. The next round is going
to increase to 12. These. And how you're gonna go from six to 12 is you're going to put two loops in each of your
previous loops to double it. You right here, I'm
tightening that hole, so pull on the little end. Just so we decrease that whole. Okay, see each V, We're now gonna put r, those are our new holes. Okay, so we're gonna put our
needle into the new hole, which is the first V. Yarn over, pull through. You now have two strings
on your needle again. Yarn over again, pull
through and voila, your first V and the
first tool do it into the same hole because we're
doubling and pull through. Now you have two V's
in that first tool. Go to the next view,
your new hole. Put your needle in there, pull through so you have
two strings on your needle, yarn over pull through, that's your first v. Put it into the exact same home. Yarn over, pull through. You got two strings
on your needle, yarn over one more time, and now you've got two V's. That second home. You're going to move
on to the third hole. You're going to put
two V's in that one. So one yarn over pull through, that's one into the exact same hole
because we're doubling. And yarn over again. That's three. That's two in the third. This is the fourth hole, your yarn and over, you got one V and the
fourth hole, yarn over, pull through, yarn over again, pulling through, That's the
second V in the fourth hole. Now we're onto the fifth hole. Yarn over, pull through,
yarn over again. Pull through, that's the
first V and the fifth hole. Go back into the
whole yarn over, pull through, you got two
strings on your needle, yarn over again, pull through. That's the second D
in your fifth hole. One more. First V in the sixth hole. And going back into
that same hole. To make our final winemaking
a total of 12 loops around. That is your second layer here. I'm going to count
them. Here we go. I actually went one too far. I didn't actually count. I'm going too far right now. And that's okay. I'm
showing you what happens when you mess up. So here I go.
123456789101112013 V's. So that means I doubled one extra that I shouldn't
have, so I'm just gonna pull. Okay, so now I'll count again. 123456789101112. Oh, okay. There we go. So easy fix. I've done this for so long
that I stopped counting on and I just kind of
guess the next one, your third layer, you're actually going to
do the same thing. You're going to increase by one. So you're going to double
up in the first hole. This is the second V I'm making. But now I'm going to move
on to the second hole, which is normal, but I'm not going to double up in this one. I'm just putting one
v in the second home. Now I'm going to go
to the third hole, but I'm going to double up here. One v. Go back into the
same home movies. In the third hole. I'm going to go to the fourth d, or the fourth hole. I'm only going to put
one in this 11 v here. Then I'm going to go
to the fifth hole and I'm going to
double up this 11 v. Basically it's
double than a single, double than a single
all the way around. And what you'll end up
with is 18 total loops. I'm only adding six loops. The 12th. Every single
layer you put on, you're going to add six. And every layer you're going
to include one more single, increase one more single
loop to your, your patterns. So if first started with double, double, double, double, double, then it goes double, single, double, single, double,
single, double single. Then the next one will be
double, single, single, double, single, single,
double, single, single. Next one will be double, single, single, single, double, single, single, single, single. So yes, so that's what I'm
doing and what you can do. You could also write
down the pattern. So like I said, every layer
you're increasing by six. So it's 12 in 18243036. And after you go
around each time, most people use markers, like to mark where they started. That's a great idea, especially
if you're starting out. Then when you get to
the marker again, you know that you are ready for your next loop and then just count how many loops, how many you have. So I know I can tell
just by the size, it's getting close to
the end of this layer. I'm going to be counting soon. I think I actually messed
up on this layer two, so I had to undo a couple. We'll see, Let's count them. I think I'm going to count them. I'm going to add one more, but I do believe I
mess up on this one. This is why a marker
of some sort, like using a paperclip will help you tremendously that way you don't
have to count. Okay, here we go. 1234567891011121314151617180. I have one-to-many, so I got to undo an increase. Undo this one. Then the last
place the eye increased, I have to undo. So let's count it again. 123456789101112131415161718. There. Now I have 18 on
this final loop. Like I said in the first loop of the new
layer, I'm going to double. So one V in the first hole and then go back into that same home to movies
in the first hole. That's how you double. Then in the next hole, the second hall, I'm only gonna do
a single one V. Then in the next
one I'm only gonna do a single into the third hole, one V. But in the next
one, the fourth Hall, I'm gonna double so one going back into the same
home to the next one, we're gonna do a single
into the fifth hole. One. The sixth hole. I'm gonna do a single
one. Did I mess up? Was I not sure which one was in? I might have messed up. There we go. One v in the seventh hole, I'm doubling one V back into the same home to V in
eighth hole, single. One. In the ninth hole, one V, one V in the
10th, I'm doubling one. V, go back into the same hole. One or two. The next one single. One. The next one single. Might be off here. That might be a double.
Yeah, it's double, single, single, double,
single, single. And in the end we are
looking for 24 loops. I know I'm getting close here, so I'll be stopping and
counting them soon. Losing track of where I am. This is why using markers are so important
and I do believe I use, I start using markers
after a certain level because there's just
so much counting and it's mindless work. So what I do typically is all
use two markers, actually, especially when
the circle starts getting huge because
you're going to start adding like tens and
twenties of single crochets. So what I'll do is
I'll put one marker at the beginning of the level, like where I first
start the new level. Then I will count how many loops I have
to go for the first, like doubling, It's like
double and then 15 singles. Let's say, I'll
count the first loop all the way to the
16th loop and I'll put a marker right there
that way I know I have to double and then do singles all the way
to that second marker. And then I'll move
that second marker again to the next 16th loop six times all the way back to
the original first marker. I do. Like I said, I do believe
I do that in this video, but it's during the time-lapse, so you'll kind of see it. I think I'm getting close. Let's count them. You know what? I will probably slow down the video and show you
guys how I do the markers. That might be a
better idea just so you guys see what
I'm talking about? Again, I probably went
too far on this one. I have a habit of doing that,
especially without markers. Okay. 1234567891011121314151617181920. Twenty one, twenty two. Twenty three. Twenty four. Twenty five. Twenty six. I went too far. I increase by two this time. I got to really undo a bunch. Let's count again. 12345678910111213141516171819. Twenty one, twenty two. Twenty three. Twenty four. There we go. Awesome. Okay. So the next one
you're gonna do 30. I do a time-lapse here. And on the 31 you're
going to double and then three singles. So here we go. I'm
gonna show you how I put the markers in. I just did around 30. The next one I'm going
to try to get it to 36. I'm going to put my
first marker into the first loop of
the next level. That way when I hit
this marker again, I know I did a whole level. Just going to double
up in this first hole. One v, go back into that same home TUV. Then I'm going to
increase singles four times one single into the next tool to single and second synchro
into the next tool. Moving on to the next
tool, a third single. Then moving on to
the last hole in this miniature pattern,
another single. The next one I have to
double in the next tool, so one back into the same hole. Then for singles, I'm going to let myself
know where that is though. I'm gonna go 123 fourths. So I'm gonna put
a marker where I need to stop that way
I don't mess up here. One single, two, single, three single. Then one more. For single. I think I put
that marker one too far. I think I was
talking to someone. Let me see. Don't go any farther. I went farther. Ok. Gosh. Yeah, I was talking to someone
while I was crunching. If you mess up like this and
you miss count something. Wow, I'm going really fun. I'm going to, instead
of one extra. But if you mess up
something like this, It's really not a big deal. Your circle might
be not so flat. It's gonna be a little
wavy, but that's okay. As long as you make a base. That is so embarrassing that
I caught that on camera. But yes, I will show you eventually how I just
do increases the lazy way. Feel free to do it this
way, but you don't have to. I'm not a perfectionist. So what I'm doing, I'm not even using the markers anymore, but the shape of the bottom, you can actually see
all six corners and I just know to increase
it at each corner. It might be slightly off, but usually it
looks about right, Just keep your corners to
see what I'm talking about. So here is my shape. I don't have to use markers anymore because as you can see, there is naturally
123456 corners. I just know as I'm going along, I just increase here, somewhere. Here, here, here, here and here. Or if you want to be
really precise about it, you can use your markers and
make sure it's straight. But basically you're
just going for a really big flat circle and try to make it
as flat as possible. To do that, you
actually do want to count exactly where
each corner is. But I've been doing
this for so long. I don't I don't really
feel like doing that. So you are going to want to make as big of a bean
bag as you desire. This right here is
seven bags so far, and I do believe let's see, it's about
1234567891011121314 layers. So far. I want to increase it. That's another 14
right there, so 28. Then probably another
one is 283046. That's 46. That's like from here to here. 46. About 50. You're going
to want to increase it about 50 to make a good size being that you
could go bigger than that too. But you're going to
need a lot of bags. So yeah, this is seven so far. I'm going to go all
the way to the end. It's gonna take a while. So be patient. This was all yesterday. This took about
maybe eight hours, I want to say maybe
less than that, maybe like six hours, but be prepared to take
a while on this guys. So this is just
the base. Alright. I hope it make sure
you have enough bags. I will see you when
I finish my base.
4. How to crochet the sides of the bean bag: All done. The base. It's about all the
way out to 50 layers. As you can see, I already
started the sides. No, just kidding. This is how far I got so far. But I did start on one
and I stopped awhile ago, so I use this one just so we can speed up the filming process. So today I'm gonna show
you how to make the sides. It's so easy. When you get to the
point where you think the base is large enough, you're gonna do is you're
going to stop increasing. So remember how at
each corner you went, you doubled, and you did
that six times around. Now all you're gonna do is
stop and just go straight up. When you stop doubling, you stop expanding outward and you just start
building vertically. It's kind of like a 3D printer. What you could do if you want is mark where each of
the rounds start. I did that. You don't have to. But
if you're being precise, you might as well then go up
as many times as you want. This is about the height
that I want to go. And this is about 1234, seven forty, nine fifty tall. I did 50 rounds for the base
and then 50 for the side. If you want to get a
beanbag about this size, that's about a foot tall and
about maybe 2.5 feet wide, then that is what
you want to go for. This so far is about a 150 bags and it's I'd
say at least 40 hours. So this one right here
is I do believe it's 17 bags and this has
been 12 hours so far. So just for your reference, I hope you are saving all your scraps because you could always stat
stuff those in here. I will show you how to do that. Then if you need me to, I will show you just as a reminder how to just
continue going straight. So you put your
needle, the side, then yarn over,
pull it through the to go into your next tool. Yarn over, pull it through. You have to on your
needle, yarn over, pull it through back
to one on your needle, put in the next tool. Yarn over, pull it through. You got to on your
needle yarn over, back to one and keep
doing that all the way around as far
as you want to go. In the next video, I think I want to show you
how to make the stuffing, what goes inside of here, because you're going to
want to make that before you seal this off on the top. Alright. See you then.
5. How to make the liner and stuffing: Hey guys, In this video, I am going to show
you how to make the liner and the
stuffing for my beanbag. Here's the beanbag rack. Right now. I said I was going to
stuff it with plastic from the scrap that
I had, which I did. And you can go that route. This project is great
for recycling stuff. So you can technically make the liner and out of anything. You can make the scraps
out of anything. So let's say you have a
lot of extra clothes. You can cut those up
and sew them together to make the liner that will
hold all your stuffing. And then you can cut
those close up into little squares and put them
inside the liner as well. And then you make a
bean bag out of that. Except obviously it doesn't make that traditional
beam feel to it. It'll just be a
cushion at that point. But if you want to
make a bean bag out of something that
actually feels like beans. In this video, I'm
gonna show you how to shred of Styrofoam, which is also non-recyclable. You can't recycle it anywhere. So you someone has to find
something to do with it. We're going to use it for
the stuffing of our beanbag. One more last thing
I want to say about my current stuffing, which is all the scraps. If you go this route, makes sure you have
a lot of scraps. In fact, this is not enough
for this bean bag right here. See it's still loose. And when I sit on it because plastic is so thin and
it folds on itself. When you sit on it. It flattens so fast, so easily there's barely
any cushion there. So if you go this route, just prep yourself and
you have a lots stuffing, maybe save it in a corner and wherever you have extra bags, just put the bags in there. I didn't put any actual bags and hearing I only put
my scrap plastic, but yes, just wanted
to let you know. But the first thing we
have to make is the liner. Now, why make a liner? Will obviously you have holes
in your bean bag right now. It's crochet, but there
are tiny little holes there and so just to be on the safe side so
nothing falls out. You want to create
some kind of liner. Since this is a
recycling project, I just want to let you know I've tried a couple of things. I tried a like a black garbage bag and it was a good idea because
it was like plastic. If it got rained on, it would be waterproof. It would be made entirely of
non-recyclable materials. All the reasons what I did is I filled that with Styrofoam
beans actually in. Then I poked tiny little
holes all over it. And what happened is
whenever I sat in it, the little tiny beans inside
would fly out just slightly. And every time I sat
on it or I moved it, it would make just the
tiniest of messes. And then just the
universe talking to me, saying, warning me like, Hey, that's really
not going to work. I brought it to school with me one day and one
of the lake yeah, you can all just sit
on it, whatever. And one of the kids decided
to do a body slam on it. And stuffing went everywhere. Little beans went everywhere. So I I brought it to school
for that exact reason. This for me is built for kids. And if a kid decides
to body slam it, which you know, they're
going to want to do. It's a bean bag. That's
what's going to happen. So this is body slam proof. This material right here. This is still recycled. I found this on the
underside of a bed frame. If you guys know what
I'm talking about, there's like a piece
of fabric underneath bed frames and it's
like it's transparent. So it's like air able
to flow through it. But also it's sturdy enough to not let anything go
through besides air. So I decided because people around here always throw away their mattresses
and they're not just frames. I tear them off and
I keep them and I make these perfect
liners out of them. So to start, you're going to
want to move your beanbag. Get out your sewing machine. Here's mine. If you don't know how to sell or you don't
have a sewing machine. This is probably not
the project for you. It's very helpful to
have sewing needles, but they're not
completely necessary. I actually just bought
these for about a year. I wasn't saying
anything with needles, but man, I always thought it would be really
helpful to have them. So now you're going to
also need some lining. Or whatever fabric you
use, it could be closed. Let me get some. So
here is one liner here. And sometimes when
you rip these off or it was sometimes
when you find them on the bottom
of mattresses, there's already giant holes in them or it's already shaped, really weird or whatever. It doesn't really matter. Because all you're
trying to do is make a big pouch, right? So for instance, this
one's pretty normal. This looks like a rectangle. Just trust me, on, that does look like a rectangle. There are holes in it. So you could either evening
out and cut it out. Or what I would probably do
for recycling purposes is I would pretend it's already cut out and just sew
it further down. That way we're not wasting this. This also goes into
beanbag with it. Then. Or you could also patch it, which is what I did on the beanbag liner that I
have now I've patched it. I cut other pieces out of
other ones in patched it. So to start, you got your shape. Whatever shape it is, even if
it is a perfect rectangle, all you're gonna do to start
is so edges to other edges. So here's one giant edge. I know I'm not going
to have my bag, my lining this long. It doesn't have to be that long. Maybe half that size. So I'm going to fold
it in half like that. Now this is about the size
of my feedback and I'll show you coming back. Here's the potential lining
size that I'm going for. Yes. It's a little larger
than they being bad. But it's close to the size, which is exactly what I want. So what I'm gonna do
is I'm just going to solo this edge together. Okay, so let's do that. Okay? This is now sewn
together, right? Awesome. And the sides already closed
up because it's the fold. Now I gotta I gotta
use smaller wreck. I got a smaller
rectangle looking thing. Okay. And I could so this edge
together if I wanted to. But what would, what
would happen then is it would just
become a flat surface. It would become a pouch because this I would
still be open. But what I have to
do at this point, if I pretend to solve
this side together, I could needle it up, I could clip it or whatever. And just pretend that
this is my couch. It might be big enough
for my beanbag. But at this point you
need to do is I need to take my beanbag that I had made. There is a hole in
the top ready to go. So I'm going to stop
my liner in training. I don't know what I'm saying. And I am going to put the open, the open, and there's
two openings on this, but I'm going to pretend that I sold what, one edge together. I'm just going to put it in the bean bag
and I'm going to try to push the liner up
against every side. But like I suspected, this liner is too small. It does not cover
every single side. It's a little small. You want and what your goal
is is you want to every side, every inch from the inside
to be covered by liner. And then you want extra. Okay. I'd say maybe
like a slit extra. So for a couple of reasons. One, if it's too
small, when you, when you can be able to grab bean bag like this and you don't want
it to be too small. Even if you stuff that
the liner all the way. If you make it too small, like it's not stretched
out to every edge, it's going to be fun to sit in because
it's going to bend and break and whatever. Another reason is
you want it bigger because if you fill it up to like halfway or
whatever you fill it up, you probably don't want to
fill it up all the way, especially if it's
bigger than the BMI because then it's just too much. It won't, it will explode. Anyway. You want it to be bigger than the beanbag Because when you
fill it up about, let's say, three-quarters
of the way, you're going to want
the beans to be able to move around inside. Because if they
can't move around, like I said, it's going
to rip the liner. Possibly. Someone's going to body slamming it and it's
going to explode. Possibly. Like what? Even if it's made out
of this material, a seam over IP or something. So you want it to be bigger hypothetically than the
beanbag. Does that make sense? Okay. So yeah, I'm going to now. So I got my pouch. Now that I know it's too
small, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna show
the edge that I thought about sewing
together wherever that is. And instead, I'm going to grab another piece of
fabric like this. I'm going to sew it onto
where I was going to so it closed and instead
just sew it to it. Right. And make it bigger. Because the only
way I can make this bigger is if I add
another piece. Okay? So, yeah. So I'm just going to
solo these two long ends together to give it more space, more volume, given
more surface area. Okay. Okay. So this is one piece of fabric. Now officially,
there is the hole. And as you can see, as you can see, let
me show you this. So there's, there's
the sewing and I connected the two pieces. They're connected, but this
whole is still a part of it. It's just not some against
the edge of this piece because of the whole
that way I don't have to go back and you could
have patch over, it. Just saves time. Yes. Now these two pieces
are connected. What I can do now is just
pick a different edge. Really any age edge. This one. Just kinda got to
eyeball it and see which edge you want to
connect and make sure they're generally the same size. So they don't have to be because then you can
fold it a different way to make it a new side and
then fold those two pieces. So I'm just going to, I picked a new two edges to fold and attached to one another. That's
what I'm gonna do. In general. When you get everything. Like a big sphere of some sort doesn't
have to be a sphere. Obviously these have corners. Fine. Just make sure it
has a hole in the top. Okay. Just one who generally about maybe this big and it has to be bigger
than your bean bag. Okay, So let me pull my, my actual beanbag feedback
liner over here again. As you can see at the very top. After selling all
these edges together, this is what the top, the horse, the top from. So what I'm going to
use looks like it is not it is not cleaned
by any means. You know, there's like
there's this flap right here. Okay. And then there's like there's sign and here's two pieces
right there that were sewn together right
there and that makes this weird
corner, whatever. Okay. And that and I'm just going to when I'm all
done stuff in it. So that together. And quick. If you want to make the
sewing process easier, make almost like a
funnel, a little tube. So what I might do
before I start stuffing this is on this side at least because this
side already has a flat. On this side, I could
cut out something from my previous one that
I was showing you and add it add a couple
of inches to this side. That way when I do go
to so it filled with beings because I already know
it's really, really messy. I will already have two
flashed in a tunnel and then I could get it into the sewing machine without
everything spilling out. I'll have two flaps that I can stretch away from the bean bag. And so it like that and
it won't be too messy. So I could do that. Yeah, you just got to get
creative with this process. Super fun. You will need a
blender of some sort. I actually prefer the
smaller blenders. So this is a bullet. I actually used the last
time I made a beanbag, a giant food processor. And what ended up happening
is because it's bigger, I felt like I could
put more in it. I did, but eventually
I messed up and the blade broke and I had to get rid of
that food processor. So I think going smaller, even though it would
take more time, it's going to work out. You in the long run
and these blades, the smaller, like, I
don't know, not smaller, but these are more sturdy than the ones in food processors
because those are flat, larger and they're much easier to bend or break or whatever. This is. This just type is 30 and
also I'm using an art. This one is dedicated to
art in this kind of stuff. As you can see, it's been
used for that reason. Same with the cup. Didn't use for that reason. If I had another bullet, I would probably dedicate
that to art alone. I don t think I'm going to break it because I'm going to
take it in small chunks. I'm gonna show you how much you should put in the blender. Like this. No matter what blender you have, you really shouldn't
put too much in there, no matter how impatient
you are either. Also, my liner is ready to go
before I fill this at all, before I put any bean bags in or beans and I am going
to check it for holes. Like I'm going to
put my whole body in here and look around. I took the time to sew all holes shut because if you leave
a hole in this anywhere, you better believe
it's gonna leak. And I might have missed
a whole I don't know. I won't know until it's
full, which will be helpful. I'm going to put it
all into the beanbag. I'll shake it and if
something falls out, I'll at least know
where it is and I'll try my best to shut. But yeah, try to do all that before you put beans in here. I also have my my funnel. I made my funnel. Like I mentioned. There's just an extra
like lip right here. So when I do fill
this with beans, I can just fold
this over and so it without too much of a mess. And my bean liner is sitting right here
next to me at the table. When I am done with one cup, I can just pour it
into my being liner. Okay, So let's plug this up. There is an art to shredding up. Being there is hard styrofoam. This is like really
compact stuff. You'll know it's hard when
you try to break it and it's like it takes effort. But there's also easy Styrofoam. It's usually either thinner. It just breaks really easily. Okay. I like to actually
combine these. There's not really whatever, but what you want
to make sure you're not doing is overselling it. And you want to make sure
you're not putting too much of this hard stuff
in there all at once. And also you want to make sure the hard stuff isn't
too big already. So this is just
barely pushing it. You might get away with
putting this in there, but just expect that the
beans won't be fully, they won't be small when after a couple of
seconds and blending, so I'm going to
break it in half, maybe even another one. These are acceptable
sizes right here, maybe like an inch. Honestly want to do
that for all pieces, but the softer Styrofoam, you actually can get away with making them
a little bigger. I still wouldn't, but
like you could because they break up so
quickly, so easily. And you just want to put them, the smaller you break them up before you put them
in the blender, the smaller they will
come out of the blender. And not all of this is going
to get shredded up, so fine. Do not expect that. All right. So I'm just going to this is this is about how much you
want, believe it or not. I should also mention how much Styrofoam you're going to want. So when you hold this bean
bag up to the Styrofoam, if you put all this
on top of each other and it looks
about the same size, then you know, you
have enough, okay? And if you don't have enough, you can easily go
out and get some. They're everywhere. So you might be able to fill it
a little more than this, but this is a good, this will guarantee you're
gonna get smaller beads. So also prepared to be sitting here and
listening to loud noises for the next several hours is actually might take a
couple of days, so alright. Alright. When you when
you start to see stuff not moving or anything,
it's probably done. All the beans will
stick to the sides of your jar unless you put more and you can
actually prove it.
6. How to crochet the top of the bean bag: Okay, here is the final video. This is similar to when
you made your base, except it's the exact opposite. We're going to make the
top of the bean bag. We're going to seal our
stuffing inside of here. So this is basically the
opposite of what you did. You are going to, every six points
on your bean bag, you're going to decrease, meaning you're just
going to skip a whole. Okay? So this is my first
on my circle, makes sure you know
how many loops are on your outer circle. So give me a moment, let
me count how many I have. Okay, I have 288 loops
on the outside here, and that is divisible by
six, which is important. If it's not divisible by six, you need to either add
a couple more doubles, like Keep going to the
next point and add a double until you
get divisible by six, because obviously
we are going to decrease every sixth as well. So there are 288 on here. And if you can tell
where the corners are, where the six corners are, you can definitely just eyeball it and decrease I everyone. If you want to be precise, you have to do the math. So if I have two hundred, two hundred eighty eight
divided by six, that is 48. So that means I'm going to decrease the
first one and then count 47 singles and then
decrease again on the next one. Okay, I'm gonna do that
for awhile and I will come back to you When I got
some progress done. Okay. I also just
wanted to say that I am gonna go ahead and put markers and because I wanna be perfect size for this part, I want to generally
flat surface. And if you don't count
and you get them wrong, it's gonna be kinda wavy. So what I did was I
counted exactly 48 points away from my starter and I put my marker inside of that loop. That way I can decrease
the first one, go singles and all
the rest of them, and then stop right
before I'm about to hit the next
marker. So here I go. I'm putting in this really
easy to remove marker. It's just like a pen. And then I'm going to decrease. And I'm just going to
do what I normally do, which is yarn over,
pull through, yarn over again, pull through. I'm going to go all
the way to my marker. And then I'm going
to skip another one. I do that six times
to make a full round. And then I just keep decreasing. And I'm going to show you
the math of how I decide how many loops I
count the next round. Okay? So I went around, I decreased six times and I'm ready to start
on my next round. So I had 288 loops and
I divide it by six, but now I'm going to
minus six from that. So now I only have
282 loops all around. I'll divide by six again because I'm going
to decrease six times and I get 47 this time. Last time I had 48. And now I'm going to make
each spacing 47 loops. Okay, So pretty much
same concept here. I'm going to count
47, and I'm going to do that six times all the way round to make one full round. And I'll just keep doing that. So it's just another pattern, just like when you
made the base, when you increase every
round. Same thing here. So when you do the math, you are just minusing
six every round because you are decreasing
six times each round. So minus six from the
big number and then divide by six, right? So big number divided by six
will get you how many should be between each marker, if that makes sense. And
you're going to keep going. So it'll be like you're
decreasing every 47, you're decreasing every 46, you're decreasing every 45, every 40 for every 43
and so on and so forth, all the way until you get
to the very small part. But before we get there, we're going to want to
put our stuffing in, so I would stop
maybe about halfway. Okay. So I'll show
you how we do that. Right. So I've gotten a little far. As you can see, there's now like a little shelf being
made for the top. I'm about ten ish layers in. At any point about now, you can put your stuffing in. You could have done it
like at the beginning, but if the circle
gets too small, you're going to have trouble
stuffing everything in. But yeah, just put your
stuff in around now, I will say that I don't think I'm going to
need my second marker anymore because I am able
to now see each point. So here's one, here's 23456. So I can actually eyeball to eyeball it now and not have
to count every single time. It just saves a
little bit of time. But if you want to be
precise, again, just count. I don t think I'm
going to so yes, I have about 40 more
rounds to go in there. Each one is going to get a
little faster because they're gonna get smaller and
I'm so excited about it. But yeah, this would be
a good time to stuff your bag and just don't
overstep it like if it's filling this whole thing to the point where it's like
pushing on the sides really far where everything's stretching
and then it's even like floating above your whole that's probably
too much stuffing. Okay. I'm gonna keep going. Okay, we're almost done. I got the beam, the beans, and the
liner inside here. I only have this much left. I'm now down to
single or double, double, decreasing
at this point for every single next one I'm going to increase by skipping
into the next one. I'm going to show you
how to tie this off. I mean, there's lots
of ways to tie it off. But I'm gonna show you
how I'm gonna do it. So I got one loop on my needle. I got string lift, and I got a tiny, tiny bit of a hole. I'm literally just
going to find a area. I'm going to just
say right here. And it put it through. I'm
going to take my string, loop over, pull it
all the way through, and then pull it all the way through the
other one as well. Unless I lose the loop. Yeah, there we go. There we go. Got it. I'm just going to pull
the string all the way through to though
it might break. So be careful there, the
strings all the way through, I'm going to pull it tight
but not too tight or when break the plastic, I'm going to just kinda tie it. Like I'm going to put my
needle through another area. I'm going to pull my, I'm gonna put a finger
here for the string. Through again. If I am tying a notch, come on through,
come on through. There we go. Serpentine and I'm
going to tie this. I'm going to put
this through here. And type. Type, meaning Okay,
all this extra stuff. I'm just going to find the
closest whole that it's next to and pull
it through there. Just like that. Push
it through there if you need to travel. Okay. Tada, there we go. We did it. You did it. You finished a giant bean bag. That's it, guys.
Thanks for watching.
Brista Drake
