Don’t ever throw grocery bags when you can reuse them.

Actually I don’t think that anyone throws out plastic bags nowadays. They are excellent as kitchen or bathroom garbage bin inserts and you can always use them on your next shopping trip. However, if you are a heavy shopper and your hoard bags quicker than you use them, there is always the option to crochet a plastic bag rug. You can easily find many tutorials how to do it. Surely, dealing with plastic bags is boring and takes a lot space is you don’t fold them! Therefore, crochet plastic bag keepers are the best and most elegant solution to this problem. To make a plastic bag holder even more attractive, all free crochet patterns below are animal or animal-ish shaped.

Fishie the Plastic Bag Keeper

A fish is an excellent shape for use as a plastic bag keeper. It will looks great with its belly full stuffed with grocery bags, but it also will also look elegant empty.

Fishie the Plastic Bag Keeper