How To Make A Plastic Bag Rug

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.

How to make a plastic bag rug.

If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. 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. 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. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. No tools other than scissors no skill other than braiding. How to make a braided plastic bag rug.

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.