How to make rugs crocheted from grocery bags.
How to make a plastic bag rug.
Apologies in advance for some blurry spots.
One of two parts.
No tools other than scissors no skill other than braiding.
How to make a braided plastic bag rug.
Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.
If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.
Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.
Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.
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.
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.
To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.