WIP Wednesday: Plarn Market Bag

Got a new thing I'm participating in: Work-In-Progress Wednesday. So here's the project I'm working on today. I'm making a second plarn market bag for my local grocery store manager, so she can send the one she already has to the corporate office of the chain. I hope this gets talked about and maybe encouraged by the company. I'm using The Ultimate Recycled Market Bag pattern. It's available as a free download, if you want to try it out.

Here are some tips for working with plarn:
How to Make Plarn
Saving Your Hands & Arms When Using Plarn

This post is part of Work-In-Progress Wednesday, and you can find more links to WIP-Wed participants' blogs here.

The Ultimate Recycled Market Bag

This bag has been pronounced, “the ultimate recycled market bag” by one of the managers at my local HEB supermarket, from which the plarn was obtained. Plarn is made from cut-up plastic bags, and this pattern uses those ubiquitous plastic grocery store bags. It is very strong and long-lasting. In fact, after years of use, mine are still performing admirably.

U.S. crochet terms

Skill Level Easy

Yarn plarn from 20-25 lg. plastic grocery bags
(Instructions for making plarn are included in pattern.)

Schematic diagram included.

For a free .pdf of this pattern click here:

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I owe a debt of gratitude to Recycle Cindy, who inspires us all with her ground-breaking work with plarn and other recycled materials. I really didn't mean to use a similar pattern name to one of hers... really... the store manager named it.


You can find crochet tips and variations for this pattern in the following posts:
How to Make Plarn
Saving Your Hands and Arms When Using Plarn
Cotton Yarn Market Bag
T-Shirt Yarn Market Bag
Bag-In-Progress
My Old Crochet Hook