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November 17th, 2009

diy project: sara’s crocheted plastic bag placemats

i’m still finishing up the book this morning, so i wanted to kick things off from with a fun diy project. d*s reader and crafting mom sara rivka dahan created these great crocheted placemats using leftover plastic bags from the grocery store. it’s not every day that you find a fun way to reuse those bags, and this is the perfect project to keep you busy on a cold winter day. CLICK HERE for the full instructions! thanks, sara!

	13 comments
Teresa said: November 17th, 2009 - 8:15 am	Wow! Incredible!! :)

kristina said: November 17th, 2009 - 8:19 am	oh wow

Mouse said: November 17th, 2009 - 9:38 am	Wow. I could actually do this. I could make, say 950 with the plastic bags in our kitchen closet alone!

Sarah said: November 17th, 2009 - 10:19 am	my greatgrandmother used to make these with bread bags. we had what seemed like hundreds of them!

Marie said: November 17th, 2009 - 11:44 am	That is by far the best idea I have seen for plarn yet. I love it!

raizy said: November 17th, 2009 - 2:09 pm	Wow! What a great way to recycle into something useful and So cute! Love it! THanks!

Joan said: November 17th, 2009 - 3:13 pm	This is very pretty. Very similar to tote bags that I make (round and square), using a multitude of plastic bags and/or tableclothes. These are fun and quick to make. Very durable too. My mother used to make rugs and chair cushions.

apayne said: November 17th, 2009 - 4:46 pm	you can find totes like this for sale at a super cute store in athens, ga called helix or you could last summer when i was there! great idea!! the red and white target bags make really cute ones.

melissa said: November 17th, 2009 - 8:28 pm	My dear grandmother used to make these as rugs – they wash well and eventually just disintegrate (at least they do after a long Northern winter full of boot scuffing loggers coming in for coffee three times a day!) which solves the problem of landfill and waste issues! She did it out of necessity – maybe we should as well!

Bryan Moore said: November 18th, 2009 - 12:13 am	The color patterns reminds me of back home. The best thing about these are that they are sustainable. I’m a huge advocate of green design and appreciate stuff like this.

Well Done Blog said: November 18th, 2009 - 1:02 pm	Wow, I never knew it was so easy to make plarn. I had pictured a very tedious method of making the bags into yarn…. I think I might be able to actually do this!. Her site has another cool project with plastic bags, coasters. You melt the bags together to make a thick plastic and you can put pretty designs in between the layers…I love simple-recycled crafts…thanks D*S!

Barbara Macleod said: November 18th, 2009 - 6:42 pm	How very clever!

Mme Verdurin said: November 18th, 2009 - 7:33 pm	Wow… that’s… um… frugal.

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