How To Make A Plarn Rug

To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.

How to make a plarn rug.

How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. The number of balls of plarn you need to make a rug depends on the size of rug you want. You then crochet with it. Lay the bag sideways on a flat surface and cut off the bottom of the bread bag leaving a.

Plarn sleeping mat one of the best things to do with this material is to make plarn mats for the homeless. If you are not familiar with the term plarn it s plastic bags cut into strips to create yarn. The ultimate recycled market bag go green while shopping with this awesome handmade plarn bag. No it s not slippery at all.

I decided to take on a massive undertaking to make a kitchen rug after seeing the prices of store bought rugs for the size i needed 13 feet long by 3 1 2 feet wide and before you ask. These plastic rugs are really handy for boots and doormats. In this tutorial you ll learn how to prepare the bag and two ways to cut it up into strips the spiral and the slit skirt method that s the same one you use to make t shirt yarn. Over the past year or so i ve been a little obsessed with plarn plastic yarn made from plastic bags and have created a number of purses totes and other bags.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. I have a free crochet pattern available if you want to make this rug. 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.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. 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.