How to Make a Plastic Bag Blanket

Hello! today I will be teaching you how to make a blanket entirely from plastic bags! follow these steps and you will be done in no time!

Materials needed:

Plastic bags (approximately 500 plastic bags)

Scissors

Crochet needle (12mm)

Firstly, you need to flatten each bag by pulling from each corner. Place four to five bags on top of each other at a time. Place them horizontally with the handles on one side and the bottom seam on the opposite side.

Secondly, you must fold each group of bags into one long strip. To do this, you need to fold the bag over 3 fold from the top and bottom until it becomes one long strip.

After the group of bags are folded and laying horizontally, cut the two ends off to eliminate the bottom seam and the handles.

Now that you have a folded strip, cut the strip into seven, two inch strips and unwrap them to separate them into individual loops. If you did this correctly, you should end up with 7 plastic loops for each bag so about 28 to 35 strips per group.

Now that you have these individual plastic loops, connect them by using a simple chain knot to link them together. Continue this process until you have enough loops attached to roll up into a ball....similar to a ball of yarn.

Once you have completed connecting as many loops as possible, you will have a mountain of connected plastic loops in a huge pile. To avoid tangling, wrap the attached loops into a big ball, similar to a ball of yarn. You could make these balls as small or as big as you like. The bigger the ball, the less you have to introduce a new loop to the crocheted blanket. Merging a new ball of yarn could get a little tricky, as I've experienced.

Now that you have your ball of plastic yarn, you can begin crocheting. The process is exactly like you are crocheting a blanket. You will begin by making a chain stitch. I did not count the number of chains. Instead, I lay the chain on my lap and decided how wide I wanted to make the plastic bag blanket. Once the chain was complete and I was happy with the width, I turned over the chain and began crocheting. I used a one and a half chain stitch throughout the entire blanket. I determined the length the same way. I kept placing the work in progress on my lap and decided how long I wanted to make the blanket. I continued crocheting until I was happy with the length. I hope these steps provide an adequate explanation and how to guide on how I approached this project from start to finish. Good Luck!

Finishing a full blanket can take quite some time! It took me close to 9 hours to finish this one. So sit tight get comfy and start crocheting bags!!!!

To make the blanket a little more decorative, I added fringes to each end. I had extra strips left over so instead of throwing them out (recycle them). I decided to you them to make fringes. I took each strip and folded it over. I then wrapped the folded strip over the crochet needle and slipped it into each individual opening on each end of the blanket. Once inserted, you will have a loop on the top and a double strand below. Flip the strand over and insert it through the loop and pull. This creates a fringe. Continue until each opening on the top and bottom of the blanket has a fringe. Since the length of the fringes were too long I cut the length of fringes equally on both sides.

To make it easier to carry the blanket, I decided to crochet two single stitch cords on each end of the blanket. I made the cords long enough to be able to make a bow. Double knotting would be too difficult to undo. It works by rolling the blanket and tying both strings together. This creates a handle to carry the blanket with ease.