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)[…]
Tag: plastic bag basket
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[…]
936 Soda Tabs
I maintain yet another small heap that I have not discussed on this web site until just now. I stash away the soda tabs like a squirrel stashes away acorns. I don’t mind talking about[…]
Still attacking the plastic bags
Last week, I largely left my piles untouched. I focused much of my artistic time on a collaborative journal project with seven other members of the St. Louis chapter of the Womans Caucus for Art.[…]