Plastic Bag Yarn

[calzephyr]

After yesterday's whine, I really want to try this - make your own yarn from shopping bags!. I certainly have enough of the raw material waiting to be recycled (curbside recycling is finally coming to Cowtown in 2009 btw). It would make some neat bags for sure. I even wonder if it would be good in the ol' Knifty Knitter.

I'm thinking too, I have lots of nice jewel-tone colour bags in green and gold - although I usually recycle these at craft shows. I could still cut some shapes out of them and run them through the Xyron to make them stickers.

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Heh, I just posted about bag yarn in a couple of my other blogs. I don't knit, but I wonder there is a market for others to buy it from me once made.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I could see selling the yarn. I was thinking it would take a lot of plastic bags to make something, and I'd have to wrangle some friends and bags for a cutting bee. I wonder if the little machine that rug hookers use to cut strips of fabric would work. If a bag wouldn't bunch in a paper shredder, that could be an option too.