Plarn Crochet

1. 1. Introduction: my name's Andy. I have been crashing since 2012 on recently. I've become obsessed with plan, which is yarn made out of recycled plastic bags. So today I'm going to teach you how to turn your old plastic bags into yarn. I'm also going to teach you how to make this cute market totes out of that last year. Uh, so if you are concerned about the environment, if you live somewhere without a plastic bag ban and you want to be known as a crazy bag lady, then this is the course for you. I look forward to seeing you in the next video. 2. 2. Making Plarn: Okay, So you have your backs. Take one on. Open it up. Lay it out. You see, even this bag has a hole. That's okay. It will affect just one or two of loops. It's actually not way. Open it up Flat. Fold cold. Full just so that it's at a reasonable with the clip it. Quickly cut the handles off. Right where this edge is. One inches, segments one inch. Makes a pretty comparable Wait, Teoh. A standard. Personally, if you're doing a book here projects you cannot speak up. Mostly you just want to cut from consistent so that you were for products. Looks consistent. Open. Cross them over. So they're loose. And this is important. You want the loop to be across the other. That way they don't get tangled. That's all right. Cross that so that their entwines Now you have to gentle silly Don't on you like this and your loop ends up here. Then it could get table. So you need I'm a little tighter. You can welcome to here and then just kind of gently touch to get them just I like to grab it. Not it helps it slide, and it helps keep the loops even so that you don't end up with a not over here with 11 side long on one side short because you're gonna be Christian. These together. So you want to really possible. So the grabbing from either end, it's a little bit easier to me. Keep it consistent. Make life easier for you when you actually get using your partner. Now, the broken ones, you can Actually, he'd I keep them and then I break them together that I could make them into your kind of a thicker rope. And you can use that when you're pushing some baskets and things that you want kind of a heavier, stiffer if you actually use those. 3. 3. Supplies: So these air the supplies that you're gonna need for your plan on market tote. The first thing we need is a bunch of plastic backs. It doesn't matter what color they are. You can mix and match. You could have them will be one color. It's really just whatever you have access to you, you are gonna need about 60 regular shopping bags. Uh, it depends on exactly how big your bags are and how you cut. Hm. So it's kind of hard to nail down exactly how maney you're gonna need, but on average, I use 50 to 60 of thes regular grocery bags. Then you're gonna need a really sharp pair of scissors. I like these. So in cheers they cut through the backs will easily, But whatever is gonna cut through is totally fine. I recommend having either a bull or a basket because you're gonna want to catch your learn strips as you cut them. I just keep them from going everywhere. Keep them contained while you assemble them into your part for the actual bag. We're going to be using a size five millimeter or H cruciate and then to finish the bag you're gonna want a yarn needle. Thes cheap plastic ones work totally fine. I recommend a larger yarn needle. Just because it's not always is easy to thread the plastic yard and that's it. We're ready to get started. 4. 4. Tips & FAQs: So we're gonna go through some tips and frequently asked questions, uh, working with foreign since it is different than working with Yorn. Uh so first off, when you're using bags, a question what you might have issue all of my bags have to match. No, they don't. It doesn't matter. You can use a variety of bags. You can. I tend to end up with a lot of these brown bags as well as white bags so you can make those into separate balls and then stripes. You can mix it up. It really doesn't matter. You'll find that some bags have different textures. Even that is not a huge deal. He's a recycled bags. So I kind of like some of that, uh, less perfect Look, Teoh, when you get when you mix the bags that you're easy. Um, second, make sure that your bag is right side out. If your bag is inside out, then when you go to cut off the bottom, you're gonna end up with this kind of weird Mumby mess, and you're gonna end up having to cut a lot more off. Teoh missed the scenes. So the easiest way to deal with that it's just to make sure that they right side out. Most bags have labels, so it's pretty easy to see if the rating is backwards or not. That'll tell you if it's inside out. If your bags have fools, I would recommend if it took a huge rip. Don't bother using that bag. If it's just a small hole, then you can create your loops out of the bags, and it's only gonna affect one or two. So that's not a big deal. You can still get quite a bit of use out of these. Uh, now, once you dio cut your bag into strips, you're gonna end up with these leftover pieces from the bottom and from the handles. You may be thinking, What do I do with these? Uh, you have a few options. The easiest is probably just to take them into your local grocery store and recycle them. Most grocery stories have, uh, some sort of receptacle outside that it's specifically for back Greece. I Quincy recycle your scraps. You can also get creative with them all, sometimes kind of braid them all together so that I can creates kind of a rope that I can cruciate over for stiffer baskets. You can also, I've also seen people who Lubitsch and two rugs, so there's a lot you can do with it. If you're making pillows or something like that, you can save it for the stuffing, so you have options. If you have any other thoughts or suggestions, I would love to hear it. So please leave a comment in the class discussion. Okay, so let's skip ahead. You've made your barn. There's a few things that are different from yard when you're actually crashing with this. So when I normally Curuchet with yarn, I wrap it around my little finger and hold it like this. The plan does not. That was backwards, but the Floren does not. I it's isn't slide as easily. So I found that I actually have to adjust my grip to just go through my fingers here and not wrap around so that I still get that kind of nice movement but maintains intention so that my stitches don't get were So another question, uh, is what do I do if my urine, if my plan breaks, So let's say this. You get to it. It's torn like this now, if they both tear, you're gonna have Teoh, do you? Wait, take it off. Reattached the pieces that didn't care and keep stitching. If it tears like this, you have two options. You can either take off this loop, which you just did here. You literally just under your not take it off, re attach it to the tourney or if you feel comfortable with it or are kind of lazy like me , you can just crush a with it anyway, since you still have another strand that's gonna keep your stitches consistent and then just pick this up kind of as you go, and that works out just fine as well. I think that's about all you need to know to get started. Let me know if you have any other questions will answer them in class discussion 5. 5. Stitch Review: Okay, So if you don't have any experience in Crow Shea, you might want to watch a tutorial specifically designed to teach you how to Cochet. So I'm gonna kind of assume that you maybe have a least a little bit of experience. Uh, but I'm going to review the stitches that we're going to use. So our first stitch is a chain. So we're gonna make our slip stitch here, which I know that there is a way to do that with your Kershaw. Hope can. I never learned it. So I do it with my finger is it's just easier for me, but it's fine either way. So to do a chain, you're just going to a yarn over your hook and pull it through. Now you do want to keep it a little bit looser than you normally do with yarn. If you especially if you're a tight crew share like I normally am just because the porn if you catch it, it will stretch. It's just a little bit more difficult toe work with if it's really tight. So let's just go ahead and chain 10 56 eight, 10 and you can see when I hit that not just ignored it and pulled it through. Sometimes you'll find that it catches a little bit. That's totally fine, as long as you're not leaving big loops of porn in the way. Uh, the other stitch we're going to be using is a double Croce, and that's what we're gonna use for basically the entire bag. So you're going to yarn over and then you're going Teoh, push your crochet hook through the third stitch, So 12 three, it's down here. You aren't over again and pull it through. You should have three loops on your Cochet. Hook your urine over and pull through two of those loops. So now you're down to two loops. They aren't over and pull through those last year loops just like that's the final stitch that we're going to be using. At the end of vitro is a slip stitch, and that's just to connect your first chain, Teoh, with your last double crow Shea on. We're gonna cracked it so that it's a mace even row, and you don't end up with about love. So, Teoh slip stitch, you're going to not turn over. You're just going to stick your hook through. You're chained to the aren't over and then pull it through both loops just like that. And that keeps it kind of flood and just connects it nicely. Uh, that is really all the stitches were going to be using. 6. 6. Market Tote Base 1: So now that we've got our plan created, we're gonna go ahead and start on our market, toots. So we're gonna start with a slip knot, and then we're gonna chain 22 Teoh free for hi! 67 Pete, nine That 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Why to now we're gonna double Kirsch A into the third chain for look just like this. So now this change, you becomes our first civil kirsch A. So we've got two in the same room. We're going to add three more to the same to that same loop. There is one Teoh three double Curuchet in this. First it's and then we're going to double Curuchet into the next 18 stitches across to three. Sick seven. Eight what? 13 four, 16 17 18. And now, in this last chain stitch, we are ready to double crush five times. This is gonna take us around the corner to the other side. No one. - So it's he's too rounded ends Now. We're gonna Christian on the bottom of our initial room making this into around now I'm going to hold this tale along the edge of my work so that I can just crush a over it and I don't have to stitch it in. It's one. He's six. So 13 14 15 six, 16 17. Now you're going to join with this first change you with a slip stitch just like that. And that gives us our first round very beginning of the base for. So let's start around to you. I'm gonna change you. And then we're gonna double Cochet in the base of this same stitch and then we're going Teoh double Kirsch A with an increase in the next four stitches. So we're gonna be doing too double Hershey's into each stitch the next four. So there's what Increase, Teoh Peace three case for increase. And now we're gonna do a double kirsch a into each of the next 18 stitches across. What I feel three, four, six, seven, eight. No, it's well, 13 14 15 16 17 it. And now we're going to double appreciate with an increase in the next five stitches. So it's gonna take It's around this corner one. We've been increase, please. Three crease for with an increase, FYI, and then we're gonna double kirsch a across the next 18 stitches. Three, four, six So 13 14 15 15 16 17 it's We're going to finish this round with Slip Stitch into that change to space. So from here on out, it gets just a little bit wonky. With her increases, I've provided a diagram as well as a written pattern in the glass. Resource is s O. That just might help you visualize if you're having a hard time seeing what I'm doing. So for third round, we're going to start with another change to you. This time we're going to double Cochet into the next stitch and not the same one. There's no increase on these first to double pressures. Uh, then we are going to increase across the next two stitches. So there is an increase and the second increase again. That's just to Sitges symbols. Uh, now we're going to double appreciate in the next two increases. So there's to going to increase again in the next two stitches. So there's one often increase and to the increase now we're gonna double Curuchet across the next 22 stitches. It's four six, seven. The heat. 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 one. They were gonna increase over the next two stitches. Greece. It's with an increase. And then we're gonna double cliche. It's the next two stitches increase. I'm sorry. No injuries there. Just finished. We're going to regular now. We are going to increase over the next two. So there is one. The increase. I know we're going to double Curuchet across the next 20 stitches. These 1st 2 were also just double crucial, so that rounds off 22 stitches to match this site. 20 Double Appreciate cross three for six seven. It's 12. Court 15 16 17 18 19. Enjoying with slip stitch in chains to space. You're getting a pretty solid base for bag. Here. You can see it's already starting to curve up, and that is so that we have the option of laying our bag flat so it folds up really easily . It's and then it expands when you need it. Teoh treats it really coming in 7. 7. Market Tote Base 2: So for around four, we're gonna change you double cruciate into the next space increase over the next two stitches. There's one with any to we've been increase. And now we're going to double Kirsch A. Over the next six stitches. There's one to free for five six. Now, we're gonna increase in the next two stitches with the increase and to with the increase. Now, we're gonna double Curuchet across the next 22 stitches. There's to three, four, six So eight, 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 when he Why? How about an increase over the next two stitches? It's there with an increase. It's you increase. And then we're going to double Goucher across the next six stitches. It's for three four six. Now we're going. Teoh, increase over the next two stitches. There's one. An increase to with an increase. Now we're gonna double Curuchet across the next 20 stitches to finish this room. So there's what to you. Three, five, six, seven, eight No. 13. 14 Team 16. 17. Join with a slip stitch into that space, time for our last round of the base of her bed. So we're going to change you double crush A into the next space. Oops, that's that we're going to increase in the next space. Her increase. We're gonna double Curuchet into the next five stitches. There's one Teoh three, four five, and now we're going to increase in the next two spaces. It's theirs. Very increase increase. I never went to double Kirsch A. Across the next five stitches. There's one Teoh, three for five going to increase in the next stitch with an increase. And now we're going to double cruciate across the next 22 stitches. There's one, three, four, six, seven eights. It's a tour. Just hold that there. No, not like how this is training out. So what we're gonna do is we're actually going to They move this strip. So when I was just untie in it, then come into this next. Not I found it easy. Religious terror of peace. Open this up and it comes off easier. That's used to guys. That's gonna be much. Please, let's go back. 1234567 12 13 14 15 16 17 19. The increase in the next stitch there's with an increase double Curuchet into the next five stitches. It's why, to three four five increase in the next two stitches. Grace. It's double Curuchet into the next five stitches. Teoh three for another increase in the next stitch. So there's one an increase. And then we're gonna double Kirsch a across the last 20 stitches to three four six. So eight you. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19. Finish this with another subsidy. It's naive. Got the base of your bag. Next thing about the plan is that you can kind of mold it shape. It needs to be on. You can see that it very easily flagged out. So it's a nice wet bag that opens up toe hold a lot of stuff. So in the next video, we'll start working on the sides, and I will show you how to change colors, if that's what you want to do. 8. 8. Bag Sides: So now that we've got the base of the bag, we're going to start on the sites. So for the sites, we're going to change you, and then we're going to double Cochet all the way around, so that should be 80 stitches total. So there's 80 stitches. Now we slip stitch to join with that first changed you and then we are going to repeat that same thing changed. You double Cochet all the way around and join with a slip stitch. Four rose seven through 25. Uh, now, this is where I would recommend if you want. You can change colors throughout the bag. You can get different patterns in the next video. I'm gonna be showing you exactly how to do that and a few of the options that I've done in the past. 9. 9. Changing Colors: Okay, so it doesn't just a couple more rows of the brown, so I'm actually up to round eight now, and I'm going to switch to this white for the rest of with that. So the trick when you want to switch colors and you don't want kind of a jog where the color ends, you're going, Teoh, push your hook through for that final, uh, slip stitch. But instead of pulling through with the brown, we're gonna pull through with the white just like that. So that finishes are Brown's together and starts are whites on the next row, so we don't have any carry over brown. And our white isn't really dipping down into the next row. Eso Then you can just crush a normally around. So I'll finish this round and then I'll show you how it connects Nice and smooth, actually going Teoh, Just break that so that it's out of my way will join this with slip stitch, and then you can see this nice, even mine all the way across. So there's no brown jutting up into our white IHS. No way just dipping down into her brown and it creates this really nice straight this bag. I'm doing a brown base and then the rest of it's going to be white. I've done solid white, which is nice, have done solid brown. My brown bags are a little bit softer than it up just a little bit finer stitch. Um, this one. I actually alternated brown and white loops while I was making the part. And so all of this patterning is just from the variation in the strips, which is kind of cool and gives you likes and difference options. You can obviously also use this technique to do stripes or anything else. I'm really curious to see what you guys come up with, so please make sure you post a picture of your product in the class. I would love to take a look at your bags. 10. 10. Handles: and now it's time to add the handles before the handles. We're going to you slip stitch. Four. There's one to three four, and then we're going. Teoh, change Teoh and double crash A in the next 25 stitches, there's one to free for five six. So eight nine it's fun. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Team 21. Me, too. 23 24 25. You see that participate about seem place as the back bag. So are handles Will line up from now. We're going to you. Change 45 for the first handle. 123 for six seven. Remember to keep these kind of loose 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2021 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 before 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 pretty to 43 24 45. Now, being really careful to make sure you don't twist your chain here, we're going to count 14 stitches. There's 123456789 10 11 12 13 14 and join here with a double crew. Shea Skip 14 double Curuchet into the 15th stitch. Then we're going Teoh double Curuchet 25 more times 26 to three for six seven eight, nine You 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. Team 20 21 22 23 24 25 26. This is gonna be the start of our second handle. Line up nicely. There. It's gonna change. 45! 23 56789 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1920 2122 3 24 56 seven, 8 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 37 89 40 41 to 33 44 45. And of my parents. And to quickly touch making sure I twisted you're going to count 14 stitches. 123456789 10 11 12 13 14. So that's perfect. We're going to attach with Slip stitch at the time that chain to that, we started our and that is your first handle row. Yeah. Uh, now we are going. Teoh, finish off the handles. We've got two more rose left. And for those last two rows, we're just going to change you and then double Cochet all the way around, including on those handles. - Well , just joined with Slip stitch, right at the top of that cheat to you. You can see this is starting to really take shape for us. Uh, we've got one last road. Go This we're gonna change you and just don't appreciate all the way around again. Enjoying with slip stitch. Just like that, we are finished our market bags. And now in the next video, I will show you how to finish it off. 11. 11. Finishing: So to finish off our market bag, you're going to need your scissors and your yarn needle. So we're going to just clip this and pull it through all the way through to finish this off gently. Now we're going, Teoh, we've in all of these God, So just right here doesn't really matter which way just so that it gets tucked in there. Doesn't felt how much I like to go along with stitches here. And the baroness less likely come out the regular yard, which is so much talk it through so that I'm trimming it on the inside just so that we don't get any little bits of and looking out. Uh, and then we'll come down here to where we to changed colors and I'm gonna actually tidies just like that. Just a little bit more security to the ends of these judges. Now we can leave in these ends. I get it. The ground extra colors inside this that piece we can weave in this right, we'll take this. Wait, that's think. Then again to the inside track so that we got you can flip your bag inside out if you that helps you, It's not necessary. Okay, so now we've got over and over. Um, we've in the bottom. If you didn't crashing over that, I got this little tackle from Christian over it so I could just carefully clipped that. Then we're just gonna go through in any of these little, uh, loose parts we're gonna trim just to clean it up and keep her bag looking Nice. Long tag there. From where? Strip? Because it's kind of instead of just That's the you. Good. It's one more. Okay. Okay. And that's it. We have officially completed our plan. Market totes. These are super cute. They're pretty durable. Um, you would be surprised at how much weight they can actually hold. I I hope you enjoyed it.