Make Rug From Plastic Bags

If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the.

Make rug from plastic 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. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. This rug will be a crocheted round or oval rug and you use the bags as a coil held together by the twine. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.

Intermixing the colors will make a nice design. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Bags and a big piece of cardboard to shape the rug are the only supplies you ll need. Buy a roll of plastic bags the color you prefer.

Attach more shopping bags as you go. Weave with plastic bags to make your own rug. Recycle plastic bags to make your yarn. To start weaving tie one end of the shopping bags to the top corner of the loom don t tie it to the cardboard tie it to the garbage bag or ribbon then weave the rest of the shopping bag over and under the garbage bags or ribbon strips.

Collecting used plastic shopping bags. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Use a thicker plastic material like shower curtains or plastic drop cloth. Weave a rug out of plastic bags for an inexpensive and creative custom look.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. 2 take the first bag holding both handles together smooth the bag twisting as you go to collapse the bag. 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.

Weave each row in an opposite pattern as the previous row. 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. Choose bags of different colors to add variety and reflect your taste. 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.