Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.
How to make a rug from plastic grocery bags.
If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the.
Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips.
If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.
Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.
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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 plarn yarn from hdpe grocery bags to crochet with totes bags etc recycle upcycle gemfox duration.
Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new.
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.
Plastic bag yarn is called plarn.
Imagine the comments you might receive when you carry a purse made from plastic grocery bags.
For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.
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.
It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across.
To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.