Just finished up this all white crocheted plarn tote bag using up a big bunch of plastic bags from Super 1. I believe I used up over 60 plastic retail grocery sacks that I have been saving.
This recycled tote bag uses my Picket Stitch tote pattern that is available free. The tote bag makes a wonderful beach bag which is just in time for the hot weather we are having. Finished size is 13 inches wide by 13 inches long with 9 inch handles.
Below is a closeup of the handles and picket stitching across.
I shared last month that I was working on a new crocheted recycled tote bag. I call this recycled bag my harvest tote bag. I used mainly white retail bags for the tote but added orange and black bags to create a Halloween harvest themed tote.
As you can imagine, orange and black plastic bags are hard to come by. So with such few of these bags available, I was only able to use them sparely in crocheting this recycled tote bag project. I used the free recycled grocery tote pattern to crochet the project. Just follow the original pattern with the following changes. The harvest stripes were crocheted with one round of black plarn followed by four rounds with orange plarn and then one more round using black plarn. My plarn (plastic bag yarn) is made by
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