Make Rug From Shopping Bags

Repurposed plastic grocery bag rug this plastic bag rug really brings back memories of those colorful rugs from the 1970s.

Make rug from shopping bags.

Cut the top handles of each bag and stack them evenly. 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. 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 don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

Some stores allow you to return these grocery bags for recycling. How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. Or you could recycle them yourself into a creative new item. She creates rugs out of them by crocheting the bags.

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. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. Crotchet chain stitch into the same loop to make a round or oval bottom of bag.

Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. 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. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. East bremerton resident dona clayton has a creative way of re using her plastic bags.

200 plastic grocery bags estimation may be slightly more or less duct tape use a fun color scissors. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Collecting used plastic shopping bags 1. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

Fold the bags twice leaving one side edge seam sticking out. 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. If you find yourself with more plastic grocery bags than you know what to do with you have a few options.

For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.