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.
How to make a rug from plastic grocery 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 purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new.
For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.
Cut the plastic grocery bags into 1 inch wide strips.
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.
Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.
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.
Plastic bag yarn is called plarn.
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Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.
Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.
It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across.
If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.
If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the.