Rug Made Out Of Plastic Bags

Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.

Rug made out of plastic bags. Resilia clear vinyl plastic floor runner protector for low pile carpet non skid decorative pattern 27 inches wide x 6 feet long 4 0 out of 5 stars 876 21 25 21. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. If you really want to reuse old plastic bags.

Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.

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. While we may reuse the plastic bags we get from various stores they often make it to a landfill anyway when picking up dog poop or collecting garbage. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and.

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. This is a great way to involve your local church group knitting or crochet group youth group or scout organization with collecting and sorting the 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. I have been making potscrubbers out of plastic bags for awhile now.

Gather the plastic bags.