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Weave a rug out of plastic bags with an inexpensive plus creative custom appear. Bags and a big piece of cardboard to shape the rug are the only supplies you'll need. Choose bags of different colors to add variety and reflect your style. The rug may be made being big or small as you wish and time for completion depends on the number of people contributing and the pace of the work.

Trouble: Moderately Uncomplicated

Directions

things you'll need:

Cardboard (barely larger besides your intended rug) Scissors

1 Use scissors to cut notches (resembling teeth) on the top and bottom of a flat, oblong-shaped piece of cardboard. Notches must be just about the width of your thumb, 1 to 2 inches deep away from the best and 1 to 2 inches deep from the bottom. Area the notches in relation to 1 to 2 inches out of each and every other.

2 Cut several large garbage bags into strips concerning 6 inches extensive also tie the strips, end to end, to type particular lengthy piece.

3 Wind the extended bit by way of all the notches also all over the cardboard to create the base for weaving. Tie the ends within the back of the cardboard and keep all knots from the places where the bags are joined on particular side of the cardboard. The cardboard will look as any jail cell, with the plastic bags like vertical jail bars

4 Flatten from several smaller shopping bags by way of cutting outside the handles plus cutting down the sides about the bags. Link 3 small bags collectively also, starting out of the upper right corner plus moving vertical to the large bags, start weaving the tiny bags through the huge vertical strips. Use the small bags to go over plus then below, over plus then under, until you achieve the end.

5 Prepare another set about small bags for weaving and repeat the weaving method. Manage the opposite under-over process for each new set about bags. If on the last strip you went below-over with the bags, start the new strip with over-under.

6 Cut each large garbage bag at the top of every notch to release the rug from the cardboard.

References

Frugal Entertaining: Plastic Bag Rug

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