Make Rug From Shopping Bags

Collecting used plastic shopping bags 1.

Make rug from shopping bags.

Or you could recycle them yourself into a creative new item. Plastic bag mats in small sizes look gorgeous on a craft table or home office shelf large floor rugs made with plastic bags make beautiful home decorations for kitchens bathrooms mud rooms or entryways designs. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. 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.

Crotchet chain stitch into the same loop to make a round or oval bottom of bag. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. Fold the bags twice leaving one side edge seam sticking out.

Some stores allow you to return these grocery bags for recycling. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. 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. If you find yourself with more plastic grocery bags than you know what to do with you have a few options.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Cut the top handles of each bag and stack them evenly. She creates rugs out of them by crocheting the bags. 200 plastic grocery bags estimation may be slightly more or less duct tape use a fun color scissors.

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. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. I love that it s made from upcycled grocery bags and it would be perfect for sitting in front of the kitchen sink since it s completely waterproof. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.

If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. East bremerton resident dona clayton has a creative way of re using her plastic bags.