Making Shopping Bag Rugs

It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across.

Making shopping bag rugs.

Cut scraps are used to stuff the coordinating pillows also. 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. These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. I have been making potscrubbers out of plastic bags for awhile now. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. These women are doing something amazing with simple plastic bags. And nothing is wasted she said. 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 basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Step 1 select bags that are the colors you want for your mat.

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. Tie the bags at each end until the cords are slightly over the desired length of your mat. 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.

Rugs can be one color or multicolored depending on the plastic bags selected for the project. 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. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. 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. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

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. Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips.