Make Rug From Plastic Bags

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

Make rug from plastic bags.

Collecting used plastic shopping bags. Weave a rug out of plastic bags for an inexpensive and creative custom look. 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.

Weave each row in an opposite pattern as the previous row. Attach more shopping bags as you go. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the. 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. The rug can be made as large or small as you desire and time for. 2 take the first bag holding both handles together smooth the bag twisting as you go to collapse the bag. 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.

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. Different stores may have different colored shopping bags. Use a thicker plastic material like shower curtains or plastic drop cloth. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.

Recycle plastic bags to make your yarn. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. 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.

Choose bags of different colors to add variety and reflect your taste. Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. Intermixing the colors will make a nice design. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.