Crochet Plastic Bag Pattern: Plarn Soap Dish
| Crocheting with plastic bags is just like crocheting with any other type of yarn. The only difference is the texture of the material. The soap dish is a very small crochet project to start you off in exploring the world of plarn (plastic yarn). You can use the “How to Make Plarn Tutorial” if you don’t know how to yet! It is fun and a great way to recycle your old plastic grocery bags. |  |
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Finished Size: 3” (7.5 cm) wide, 4 ¼” (11 cm) long, 1 ¼” (3 cm) tall
Note that size can be adjusted by following the instructions within the pattern
Materials:
Approximately 6 plastic grocery bags, cut into a ball of plarn
Crochet Hook G (4.00 mm)
Gauge: not very important
Since the thickness of plarn varies from person to person, use a crochet hook that you are comfortable with. Crochet as tight or loose as you want your soap dish to be.
Crochet Pattern: Soap Dish
Bottom
Start by chaining 12 or as wide as you want your soap dish
Row 1: ch 1, sc in second ch from hook and in each ch across: 12 sc
Row 2: ch 1, turn, sc in each sc across: 12 sc
Repeat row 2 fourteen times or until your work is as long as you want your soap dish.
Sides
Round 1: sc around bottom piece
Repeat round 1 four times or until sides are as tall as you desire, then finish off. If you find that your sides are a bit floppy, slip stitch around the last round to make it tighter or you may choose to put decreases in the last round.
If you need help with crocheting this soap dish, let me know and I’ll be glad to help!
This would be awesome to make for my shampoo bar! I have a case for it but the bar always gets stuck in it, so this is awesome! Thanks for sharing your pattern
I love that idea. I’ll have to try it.
Love the plarn. Did the pattern and I just want to keep making plarn! Thanks for the pattern. Unlike cotton soap holders, this one won’t get moldy. Thanks!
Katie
How do you weave in the ends? Finished it, but I am not sure how…
To weave in the ends, it just like how you would do it if you made it out of regular yarn. Sometimes it helps to use a small crochet hook than the one you used to make it so that it is easier it get the strand of plarn weaved in.
Many years ago, my Mom made “plarn” to crochet marked bags. She had patience to cut all those strips and put them together. Her cuts were so straight, I wobble all over the place. I still do not have her patience with needlework
I know what you mean Sandy! Sometimes I don’t have the patience to cut plarn and I don’t cut very straight either, lol. If it helps you can fold the bag in half a few times so that you don’t have to cut all the way across it. Doing that helps me a lot!
hi Rachel this is awesome! its next on my list of projects. thanks for the pattern
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