Making Rugs Out Of Plastic 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.

Making rugs out of plastic 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. Plastic bags have proven to be sturdy enough and a cost effective material for the carrying needs of retail and food store consumers. Making your own custom sized carry bags out of plastic bags adds personal style and functionality while helping save the environment. 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 each row in an opposite pattern as the previous row. Gather the plastic bags. Attach more shopping bags as you go. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips. Lay out 10 strips side by side vertically in front of you on a work surface to begin to make one half of the purse.

Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. 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. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the.

How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across. 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.