How To Make A Plarn Rug

If you are not familiar with the term plarn it s plastic bags cut into strips to create yarn.

How to make a plarn rug.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. These plastic rugs are really handy for boots and doormats. Crochet yourself a round plarn rug. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

The number of balls of plarn you need to make a rug depends on the size of rug you want. I have a free crochet pattern available if you want to make this rug. Making plarn or plastic yarn from old plastic shopping bags is an easy process that can be done in a multitude of ways. Lay the bag sideways on a flat surface and cut off the bottom of the bread bag leaving a.

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. You then crochet with it. No it s not slippery at all. Over the past year or so i ve been a little obsessed with plarn plastic yarn made from plastic bags and have created a number of purses totes and other bags.

You can just rinse them off and hang to dry. 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. Plarn sleeping mat one of the best things to do with this material is to make plarn mats for the homeless. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.

In this tutorial you ll learn how to prepare the bag and two ways to cut it up into strips the spiral and the slit skirt method that s the same one you use to make t shirt yarn. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.