Making Rugs Out Of Plastic Bags

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.

Making rugs out of plastic bags.

Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Plastic bags have proven to be sturdy enough and a cost effective material for the carrying needs of retail and food store consumers. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the. 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.

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Weave each row in an opposite pattern as the previous row. Attach more shopping bags as you go.

It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across. 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 sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.

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. 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. Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips.

Gather the plastic bags. 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. 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.