How To Make A Rug From Plastic Grocery Bags

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

How to make a rug from plastic grocery bags.

To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Imagine the comments you might receive when you carry a purse made from plastic grocery bags. Not only can you turn empty bread bags into yarn you can use the plastic grocery bags that pile up with each trip to the supermarket to make a round rug.

For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Jennifer williams of moonlit circus explains how to make plarn plastic yarn from used grocery bags and shows some of the totes and bags she s created by. While the blue or yellow bags can be mostly sorted together the white bags tend to have accent colors that can come out in the finished rug. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.

Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. To start the rug get the grocery bags which already cut by the way if you live in an apartment and you don t want to be snowed under with bags cut them store them in a simple little box and you can store hundreds and hundreds of bags in a simple box which is good because the box can take 160 to 200 bags. Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across.

The bigger the rug you make the more shopping bags you will need so make sure you have a lot handy in each color that you want to use on your rug. Plastic bag yarn is called plarn. Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new.