Make Rug From Plastic Bags

Buy a roll of plastic bags the color you prefer.

Make rug from plastic bags. 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. Weave a rug out of plastic bags for an inexpensive and creative custom look. 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. Intermixing the colors will make a nice design.

Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Use a thicker plastic material like shower curtains or plastic drop cloth. 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.

Weave each row in an opposite pattern as the previous row. Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.

Recycle plastic bags to make your yarn. Attach more shopping bags as you go. 2 take the first bag holding both handles together smooth the bag twisting as you go to collapse the bag. Bags and a big piece of cardboard to shape the rug are the only supplies you ll need.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Collecting used plastic shopping bags. This rug will be a crocheted round or oval rug and you use the bags as a coil held together by the twine. 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.

Choose bags of different colors to add variety and reflect your taste. 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 know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the. Weave with plastic bags to make your own rug.