The Plarn Bag

A few months ago I looked around my kitchen and realized my supply of plastic bags was getting a bit out of hand. See in Morocco the plastic bag is everywhere, and I do mean everywhere. Its also an important part of culture. If you're ever going anywhere with anything - a piece of bread, an apple, a change of clothes, on a trip to Spain - you should put the a fore mentioned items in a plastic bag. To simply carry them, well that would be unacceptable. Therefore there are a lot of bags around and it seems I'm always getting "new" bags from people who've given me things or whatever. So, as I was saying my supply was getting out of hand and I didn't really want to just throw them away...There had to be something I could do with them.

Then I met a lady from town who had used her plastic bags to make a purse. I was stunned, impressed and definitly interested. I got online and looked up the newest thing in recycling - "plarn". Ya, its awesome. So you take your plastic bags, make them into "plarn" and then you crochet yourself whatever the heck you want. So for the past 2 months or so I have been working on this:

I fished it tonight. So excited to finally be done and so excited to have my totally versatile beach bag. Sand, water, who cares its made of plastic bags, I can just wash it out and away we go! Anyway, if you're interested you can find out so much more online. Some of these ladies make pretty nice purses, complete with fancy lining and ribbons. I went more casual, but the possibilities are endless! Save up your plastic bags and make something fun. I'll warn you though, its kind of addicting :-)