Making Shopping Bag Rugs

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.

Making shopping bag rugs.

Imagine the comments you might receive when you carry a purse made from plastic grocery bags. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. Cut scraps are used to stuff the coordinating pillows also. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.

How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. These women are doing something amazing with simple plastic bags. It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across. 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.

If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. And nothing is wasted she said. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

Different stores may have different colored shopping 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 the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. Rugs can be one color or multicolored depending on the plastic bags selected for the project.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. I crochet cotton yarn the same way attach them to each other and keep 2 plastic grocery bags out of the landfill. I have been making potscrubbers out of plastic bags for awhile now.

These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Step 1 select bags that are the colors you want for your mat. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

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. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.