Knitting from polyethylene bags. Designer things - literally from garbage

Have you ever thought about the fact that from plastic bags, which we very often send to the trash and clog up the environment, you can create very beautiful designer stuff. For example, rugs, furniture covers, decorative baskets for decorating the interior, as well as bags, berets, slippers and much more that can come to the mind of an inventive master. Items made of polyethylene thread keep the shape well, but soft, elastic and silky, strong, original, and if you try, you can be very beautiful. For handicrafts are suitable any packages - thin or dense, monochrome, with a pattern or different logos. The only requirement is that they should be matte, not transparent. Knitting from polyethylene bags that were in use can start with a bath mat or a hallway, and after mastering the technique and obtaining certain skills, go to more complex subjects - berets, bags, baskets.

Knitting from polyethylene bags. Preparation for work

In the beginning of work we prepare the material, i.e. Polyethylene yarn for knitting. To do this, take a package, cut the bottom and handles, leaving an even "sleeve", fold it 4 times and mark with a ruler and handle narrow strips, 2 - 2.5 cm wide. Then scissor these strips cut. The width of the strips depends on the thickness of the hook, the thickness of the packet and the density of the knitted fabric. So, for a hook 4 mm thick, the width of the stripes can be 2-2.5 centimeters, if the hook is more thin, there must already be strips. More dense packages are cut into narrower strips, and thin ones to wider ones. Determine the necessary width of the strips, as well as calculate the thickness of the hook and the number of loops needed to get started, will help the previously associated report of the pattern. Knit pattern is always recommended, it helps to feel the material, choose the size of the hook and determine the desired number of loops for the set, as well as appreciate the beauty of the chosen pattern.

So, the packages are cut into strips. It turned out a lot of narrow closed bands, which need to be connected to each other in a thread. To do this, take two strips, the end of one pass into the other, then in the formed loop, drag the opposite end of the strip and tighten the resulting knot. Consistently connect all the strips in one long thread. Prepared polyethylene threads are twisted into tangles, different in color. The material for knitting is ready.

Knitting from polyethylene bags bags

A wide scope for fantasy opens when you create bags from packages. This can be an evening clutch of black lacquer bags decorated with beads and beads, summer bags of various colors, decorated with applications and flowers, connected from the same packages, brushes, large plastic buttons, etc. Large shopping bags also get great, because the polyethylene knitted fabric is very durable, light and well cleaned. Knitting bags from bags is a fascinating and very useful lesson.

To make a truly designer and beautiful thing, it is better to use knitting from the garbage bags bought in the store specifically for this purpose. From packages of various colors knit striped bags or with a pattern (for example, chess). One tip: a very beautiful canvas is obtained if you use non-smooth knitting, for example, simply from the columns without a crochet or with a crochet, and a relief, for example, when tying the same sticks, grab the columns of the previous row not entirely, but only behind the back wall, then On the front surface of knitting will be formed relief stripes. Very beautiful looks with a loop. It is performed by alternating a series of columns with a crochet and a row of columns without a crochet with a pico from the air loops (a pico is a loop of 3 air loops, which is tied on each second column without a crochet). When tying the next row of columns with a crochet, the pico is folded downward. So, on the surface of the fabric are obtained loops. Do them in checkerboard order.

On the finished bag they sew handles, which are also knit from polyethylene thread. For handles, you can use wooden embroidery hoop. You can make handles from knitted curtain rings, which are gathered in a chain, or from a large, strong metal chain. In short, the space for imagination here is also unlimited.

You can master knitting from polyethylene bags quickly, and the results of the work are so attractive that you want to create more and more "masterpieces".