How To Make Grocery Bag Rugs

How to make a rug from plastic grocery bags.

How to make grocery bag rugs.

In an effort to be green i started saving my plastic grocery bags so that i could return them in large groups to be recycled. How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags. 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. I got my idea from a you tube video by mom eberhard.

Plastic bag yarn is called plarn. 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. I had gathered quite a few bags but kept forgetting to take them to be recycled. They work great for insulating the bottom.

So i first started using them to make. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. You i cut the tops and bottoms off the bags and loop them together. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and. I have been saving my grocery bags to make rugs or pads to sit on aluminum bleachers. I did a 4 string braid. Not only can you turn empty bread bags into yarn you can use the plastic grocery bags that pile up with each trip to the supermarket to make a round rug.