Making Shopping Bag Rugs

Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.

Making shopping bag rugs.

These women are doing something amazing with simple plastic bags. Rugs can be one color or multicolored depending on the plastic bags selected for the project. These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. And nothing is wasted she said.

Tie the bags at each end until the cords are slightly over the desired length of your mat. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.

Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. 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. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. 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. Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Different stores may have different colored shopping 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. Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

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. Cut scraps are used to stuff the coordinating pillows also. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. Imagine the comments you might receive when you carry a purse made from plastic grocery bags. I crochet cotton yarn the same way attach them to each other and keep 2 plastic grocery bags out of the landfill.

It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.