For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.
How to make a rug from plastic grocery bags.
Plastic bag yarn is called plarn.
Making plarn yarn from hdpe grocery bags to crochet with totes bags etc recycle upcycle gemfox duration.
Imagine the comments you might receive when you carry a purse made from plastic grocery bags.
Jennifer williams of moonlit circus explains how to make plarn plastic yarn from used grocery bags and shows some of the totes and bags she s created by.
Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new.
Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.
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If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the.
It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across.
To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.
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.
Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.
Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.
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.
Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips.