Making Shopping Bag Rugs

These women are doing something amazing with simple plastic bags.

Making shopping bag rugs.

Rugs can be one color or multicolored depending on the plastic bags selected for the project. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. 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. 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.

Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.

I crochet cotton yarn the same way attach them to each other and keep 2 plastic grocery bags out of the landfill. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. Step 1 select bags that are the colors you want for your mat.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. 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. Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Cut scraps are used to stuff the coordinating pillows also. Tie the bags at each end until the cords are slightly over the desired length of your mat. 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.

And nothing is wasted she said. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags.

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Although it takes her about 1 200 bags and 10 hours to make one 36 by 72 inch mat she has already made 11 of them since learning the craft in june. I have been making potscrubbers out of plastic bags for awhile now.