You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.
Make rug from shopping bags.
Or you could recycle them yourself into a creative new item.
Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.
Crotchet chain stitch into the same loop to make a round or oval bottom of bag.
Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors.
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.
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.
Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.
Cut the top handles of each bag and stack them evenly.
Repurposed plastic grocery bag rug this plastic bag rug really brings back memories of those colorful rugs from the 1970s.
East bremerton resident dona clayton has a creative way of re using her plastic 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.
The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.
If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and.
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.
Sort out all the bags you have collected into color thickness and material.
She creates rugs out of them by crocheting the bags.
How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags.
If you find yourself with more plastic grocery bags than you know what to do with you have a few options.
For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.
Some stores allow you to return these grocery bags for recycling.
200 plastic grocery bags estimation may be slightly more or less duct tape use a fun color scissors.
To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.
Collecting used plastic shopping bags 1.
Fold the bags twice leaving one side edge seam sticking out.