Making Shopping Bag Rugs

For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.

Making shopping bag rugs.

Step 1 select bags that are the colors you want for your mat. Imagine the comments you might receive when you carry a purse made from plastic grocery bags. Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.

Tie the bags at each end until the cords are slightly over the desired length of your mat. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Cut scraps are used to stuff the coordinating pillows also. 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. Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. I have been making potscrubbers out of plastic bags for awhile now.

Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. I crochet cotton yarn the same way attach them to each other and keep 2 plastic grocery bags out of the landfill. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. These women are doing something amazing with simple plastic bags.

It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. 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. These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat.

How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. 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.