Making Shopping Bag Rugs

Step 1 select bags that are the colors you want for your mat.

Making shopping bag rugs.

It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. 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. I have been making potscrubbers out of plastic bags for awhile now.

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. 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. 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. And nothing is wasted she said. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery 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.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.

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. Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. Tie the bags at each end until the cords are slightly over the desired length of your mat.

Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. Imagine the comments you might receive when you carry a purse made from plastic grocery bags. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.

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 don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.