How To Make A Rug With Plastic Bags

Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.

How to make a rug with plastic bags.

Yard or meter stick pencil scissors directions. Plastic bag yarn is called plarn. Imagine the comments you might receive when you carry a purse made from plastic grocery 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.

Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. 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. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. 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. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.

To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. 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.