Make Rug From Plastic Bags

Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.

Make rug from plastic bags.

This rug will be a crocheted round or oval rug and you use the bags as a coil held together by the twine. Choose bags of different colors to add variety and reflect your taste. 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. 2 take the first bag holding both handles together smooth the bag twisting as you go to collapse the bag.

Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Recycle plastic bags to make your yarn. Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.

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. Buy a roll of plastic bags the color you prefer. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Attach more shopping bags as you go.

Start with a bread bag your first step in making a bread wrapper rug of any size will be to fold one of the inch wide strips right down the middle so that it s only one half inch wide the finished. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Bags and a big piece of cardboard to shape the rug are the only supplies you ll need. Use a thicker plastic material like shower curtains or plastic drop cloth.

Weave with plastic bags to make your own rug. Weave a rug out of plastic bags for an inexpensive and creative custom look. 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. Intermixing the colors will make a nice design.

Weave each row in an opposite pattern as the previous row. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the. The rug can be made as large or small as you desire and time for. Collecting used plastic shopping bags.