Making Shopping Bag Rugs

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

Making shopping bag rugs.

For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. I have been making potscrubbers out of plastic bags for awhile now. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. 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. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Cut scraps are used to stuff the coordinating pillows also. Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. Imagine the comments you might receive when you carry a purse made from plastic grocery bags.

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. And nothing is wasted she said. Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.

If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. I crochet cotton yarn the same way attach them to each other and keep 2 plastic grocery bags out of the landfill.

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. How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. Rugs can be one color or multicolored depending on the plastic bags selected for the project. 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. These women are doing something amazing with simple plastic bags. Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

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. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.