Posted on Wednesday 6th August, 2008 by Shana in Craftwork, Free Patterns, Knitting, Recycling
We have stacks of asda plastic bags that we keep forgetting to give back to the driver when they deliver the groceries. So suddenly being overwhelmed by an ambitious urge, I decided to tackle knitting this Recycled Plastic Carryall.
The most time consuming part is cutting all the bags into continuous strips to make the ‘yarn’ to knit the bag. Chris rose to the challenge and set about making little ‘yarn’ balls out of the plastic bags, here he is in action, if you want to see his hands close up (and who doesn’t!), click on the picture for a larger image.
The pics show work in progress with some of the ‘yarn’ balls, and the first completed side. The second side is underway, it’s quite easy knitting with plastic if you don’t apply too much tension and take a bit of extra care.
I now expect everyone to start recycling their plastic bags 
that looks awesome! in the back of my mind i was thinking of trying this but was afraid it’d be too hard to knit with the plastic and that the finished product might not look so great. you prove me wrong!
i’ll have to try this now–yours looks really good.
It is a bit weird at first, you have to remember not to put any tension on it…no doubt when I go back to ‘normal’ knitting, it will be all floppy!
The bag cutting is quite tedious, lucky I had a willing volunteer
Wow. You have just taken knitting to a new level.