TrashCrafts!! - Continuous Strand Plastic Bag Yarn!! (aka “Plarn”)

Just a quick video showing my method for cutting plastic shopping bags (also bread bags, newspaper bags, or anything else you get in a nice, intact plastic bag with just a bottom seam) into a single long continuous strip, rather than a pile of loops that need to be knotted together. They call it plarn. I do not. 😣
Bonus Birb backing soundtrack 😆
UPDATE: Bird-free video HERE! • Trash Crafts!! How To ...
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[@marcysmith3166]

BRILLIANT!
I have wanted to try making plastic yarn but didn't want to deal with joining dozens of segments.
Thank you for sharing this. Your advice has helped me build the confidence to give this a try.

[@AShardOfChaos]

Excellent tutorial, but the birds were really quite loud. I’d love a reupload in a quieter setting. I have an audio processing disorder and it was difficult to keep focused. 😢

[@piettela]

Would turning off adio, and turning on subtitles help you?

[@AShardOfChaos]

@@piettela I didn’t realize at the time that there was an option for subtitles. Thanks for the heads up!

[@robinmckenzie4142]

Thank you so much for the wonderful tips! Thank you for sharing this video. Blessings to you ❤

[@missdaisysunshine8633]

Thank you so much! This was new and improved and super helpful!

[@lindaflanagan5255]

I love the birds in the background!

[@softsoutherngirl]

brilliant!

[@candicefrost4561]

Whoa! I’ve never tried Tunisian crochet with plastic- usually I just make basic sc mats for sleeping. I should do this for a cuter project (like a warm bath mat since the plastic is super toasty).

[@reggieb2127]

Would you show how you crocheted your round rug with the Tunesian hook? and I would love to see how your mittens worked out! Thanks for this video, I don't like the knots either.

[@conniegovea620]

Beautiful work but hard to understand birds were to loud

[@BellaAnderson-o11o1o]

I loved the birds, but then they sounded very rambunctious after awhile! But they're very lively, that's for sure!
I was wondering how you join this new plarn strip to the working plarn strip that's on the project, if that makes sense. Is there a special way to do this, or do you just knot it together and continue your project?

[@natureishappiness8742]

Very informative 👏

[@MsCjmaxi]

I think I'm going to do this because I don't like dealing with the knots either. But I'm going to cut the strips a little bit thicker because I'm making mats for the homeless

[@melw7450]

very helpful!

[@mariusamun]

This is great, thank you for sharing

[@fmrazon2341]

2:20 tutorial proper

[@nancyagudelo4625]

Thank you for sharing. Love the bird sounds! Hi from Montgomery, Alabama.

[@aidasoto2936]

I began that looks how far others goes with a round design
Thanks for share (I mean use reuse plastic bags to make the thread for making pursuit coasters place mat rugs. Etc....
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[@donnawilson96744]

How do you connect them?

[@stellworkstudio4391]

I overlap the ends, and keep stitching! I’ll have to do another video to show how I do it.

[@gaebren9021]

They sound like Budgies in the background.

[@jodirauth8847]

I really want to learn this technique from you. Your birds are wonderful. There singing is beautiful and the birds are doing what birds do. How there singing is competing with your viewers hearing you clearly. I can not understand you in your video.

[@shariedodson6196]

Great work thanks for sharing but please do next time without the birds

[@cynthiabateson5403]

Sorry birds too distracting from listening to you

[@shariedodson6196]

U could find a better place for your video to Noisy sorry

[@caroleraddatz1306]

Birds are very distracting

[@traceywenham5373]

Your birds are annoying

[@stellworkstudio4391]

Unfortunately, I no longer have them, as I developed a debilitating allergy to them. 😢 I should be posting a quieter replacement video soon.