Make Rug From Shopping Bags

Crotchet chain stitch into the same loop to make a round or oval bottom of bag.

Make rug from shopping bags.

200 plastic grocery bags estimation may be slightly more or less duct tape use a fun color scissors. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Some stores allow you to return these grocery bags for recycling. She creates rugs out of them by crocheting the bags.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. Fold the bags twice leaving one side edge seam sticking out. Repurposed plastic grocery bag rug this plastic bag rug really brings back memories of those colorful rugs from the 1970s.

Cut the top handles of each bag and stack them evenly. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. If you find yourself with more plastic grocery bags than you know what to do with you have a few options. How to make rugs crocheted from grocery 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. 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. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. 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.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. 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. Collecting used plastic shopping bags 1. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic 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. Sort out all the bags you have collected into color thickness and material. East bremerton resident dona clayton has a creative way of re using her plastic bags. Or you could recycle them yourself into a creative new item.

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.