Making Shopping Bag Rugs

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

Making shopping bag rugs.

Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. Step 1 select bags that are the colors you want for your mat. Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. 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. 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. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.

I have been making potscrubbers out of plastic bags for awhile now. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

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. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Rugs can be one color or multicolored depending on the plastic bags selected for the project. Cut scraps are used to stuff the coordinating pillows also. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. 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. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

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. 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. How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new.