Weaving plastic strips

Packing Strap Bag: A bag made out of packing straps.

Weaving with strips of plastic bags.

Milk bag mat frame for weaving. At Mississauga Girl Guide House. Check on the events page.

Posts about weaving fabric strips written by mulberrypatchquilts

Can’t resist experimenting with the plastic packages from the supermarket. Coiled basketweaving with cord of soft plastic, wrapping with twined strips of plastic bags.

Crooked and yet so useful

Woven Paper Strips

weave strips of plastic bottles into a box or basket:)

I had fun last weekend making some little woven baskets out of 2-1/2" batik strips. These baskets are often made out of paper such as magazines, newspaper, maps, potato chip bags etc. but I wanted to use fabric. I used interfacing to stiffen the strips and make them easy to weave.

As I begin typing out this entry, I just thought it would be right to say this: comfort food, enough rest, funny shows, and the one you love...

How to Recycled stuff

Earth Day cute little woven plastic "yarn" bowls out of recycled plastic bags... Reuse, recycle! It took 1 paper plate and 3 plastic bags per bowl x 30 kids = 90 plastic bags out of the landfill! Cut plastic bags in strips to make loops, then create plastic bag yarn from them (search youtube for a tutorial). Cut templates from paper plates and weave the yarn in and out continuously in a circle.

Weaving a mat

Bottle plastic recycle

I purchased a simple frame loom from a thrift shop but the similar can be found at Hobby Craft or Tiger or you can make your own using a picture frame and some nails. I displayed the ha…

A finished section of a milk bag mat on top of a recently started one.

Weaving plastic packaging strap

Recycled woven plastic bags