How To Make A Rug With Plastic Bags

Plastic shopping bags like the ones you get at the grocery store large garbage bags or sturdy ribbon rectangular piece of cardboard a little larger than the size rug you wish to make.

How to make a rug with plastic bags.

How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. 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. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.

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. Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. Yard or meter stick pencil scissors directions. Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Plastic bag yarn is called plarn. It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.

Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. 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. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.