In between turnings of the lever on my crank-powered radio, I perused the “Macrame Elegance II” catalog (copyright 1976). Several women in my family had gotten into making macrame plant hangers back in the seventies.[…]
Tag: plastic bag art
Yellow Book Bags and Hats of the 1930s
Friend: What’s this? Kate: Someone hung them from the knob of my back door yesterday. Friend: Someone left you a bunch of Yellow Book bags? Kate: Yeah. Friend: Do you not find it odd that[…]
My New Plastic Basket
Nancy Jacobs inspired this project. Essentially I utilized the same technique from her video, only I used many more thinner plastic 2 liter bottle strips for ‘spokes’ (made using the first step of this technique)[…]
No Plastic Bags for One Whole Week!
My bag collection got out of control again. I managed to collect a huge bag of plastic bags. Some Mel and I gathered. Some others gifted me. My small pile grew quickly and in less[…]
Unfocused as Ever
Back in January, I wrote a post about how I had gathered all my unfinished projects and placed them all on my newly created “Alter of the Unfocused Artist”. My goal was to actually finish[…]
It’s Awesome Because It’s So Big
Behold! A giant basket made of plastic grocery bags! I started this basket in October of 2010. I used about 200 bags from a neighbor who gifted me her massive bag collection that same month.[…]
Mel’s Bonsai Pot Made from Plastic Bags
Yesterday as I wrote my tutorial, I also showed my husband how to make a coil basket out of plastic bags. Today he finished his bonsai pot made of plastic bags. But this was apparently[…]
Making a Coil Basket with Plastic Grocery Bags
A coil basket technique basically involves wrapping a strip of material around a core of material which makes something like a cord or rope. One then begins to build a coil out of this cord[…]
Ronnoco Coffee Purse
I started making this bag back in August 2010. Every morning when I arrived at work, I would make a pot of coffee and add the wrapper that once contained the coffee to a slowly[…]
Baskets and Bags
I have not posted in some time. Mostly out of shame. I made a basket from magazine paper. It’s pretty pathetic. I used a plaited weave technique that I obviously have not mastered. This was[…]