Crochet Rugs

During COVID, when we couldn't use our own bags for groceries, we started amassing all these plastic grocery sacks. No one was recycling them. I remembered hearing about crocheting sleeping mats using plastic yarn.

YouTube was my crochet teacher. It's easier for me to crochet in the round than in rows. 

My rugs are made from repurposed plastic bags, mostly grocery store bags, but also newspaper sleeves and plastic bags from other retailers. The bags are sorted by color and cut into loops approximately 3 inches wide. One standard grocery bag equals 4 loops. Forty loops (10 bags) are joined to make a ball of "plarn" approximately 720 inches (60 feet).

A rug that is 4 feet in diameter uses about 30 balls of plarn or 300 plastic bags. 

All the rugs are crocheted using a Size Q crochet hook. 

Gathering, sorting, crocheting, and all the steps in between are done by me at my home studio in Oak Cliff.