East bremerton resident dona clayton has a creative way of re using her plastic bags.
How to make a crochet rug out of plastic bags.
Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out.
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.
Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet.
Different stores may have different colored shopping bags.
For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart.
Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral.
Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.
Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.
Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.
The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.
She creates rugs out of them by crocheting the bags.
You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.
Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface.
First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface.
The plastic bags will melt to the iron.