How To Make A Plarn Rug

The ultimate recycled market bag go green while shopping with this awesome handmade plarn bag.

How to make a plarn rug.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. 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 sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

You then crochet with it. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. These plastic rugs are really handy for boots and doormats. Making plarn or plastic yarn from old plastic shopping bags is an easy process that can be done in a multitude of ways.

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. 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. Lay the bag sideways on a flat surface and cut off the bottom of the bread bag leaving a. Crochet yourself a round plarn rug.

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. If you are not familiar with the term plarn it s plastic bags cut into strips to create yarn. You can just rinse them off and hang to dry. The number of balls of plarn you need to make a rug depends on the size of rug you want.

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. I have a free crochet pattern available if you want to make this rug.