How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags.
How to make a plastic bag rug.
One of two parts.
Different stores may have different colored shopping 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.
For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.
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.
Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.
Apologies in advance for some blurry spots.
If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.
To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.
If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and.
Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.