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Recycle Your Old Plastic Bags into Cool Woven Items

Raw Materials for weaving

Have a ripping good time and tear up your old clothing to make a woven cosmetic bag - this is the other side of the green bean bag all done with old rags. 

Recycled frozen green bean bag woven into cosmetic purse 
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Living rurally, its not always possible to whizz into town when something wears out and what do you do with all that plastic when you don't have a waste collection point handy ?  Recycle them into something useful - now with a thriving garden you might need to wait a bit to collect frozen veggie bags but hey, there are always your friends in the city to collect for you and why add to landfill something that can turn out so great.  We have just taken up weaving and are pretty amazed at what you can weave and so fast too.  

The 'yarn' or 'plarn'is easy to make - just cut half inch strips of plastic bag and thread them through each other to make a continuous strip and wind onto your weaving shuttle and there you go - free yarn !  

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