Where do you think, in addition to the kitchen, do you have to spend the lion's share of your time? In the campaigns for grocery stores and markets? No. It's about the bathroom. Here we wash ourselves, and wash, and things in the cold season, when it's damp and slushy outside, dry. So, the bathroom should look so that it was nice to be in it. To achieve a cosiness and a neat look it is possible with the help of bathroom accessories, for example, bright soft towels, multi-colored bubbles with shampoo and soft waterproof rugs made of plastic bags connected with their own hands. Do you want to find yourself like this? Well, then take the hook, lots of different packages, and get down to it.
What are good rugs made of plastic bags?
But before learning how to knit rugs from packages, let's talk about their merits. In addition, that these rugs can be very beautiful and revitalize your bathroom, they also have a lot of practical properties.
First, they are warm and pleasant to the touch. And after a shower or a bath on them you can get up without fear that your feet will freeze or slip. Secondly, under such polyethylene rug the water never accumulates, as it is rather loose and at the same time waterproof.
And, thirdly, behind the rugs, connected from plastic bags, it is easy to care for ugliness. Just apply a soapy solution or a liquid soap on it, and then rinse it thoroughly with running water and let it drain. And the fact that crocheting rugs from the packages is a fascinating and exciting activity, and there's nothing to say!
How to tie a rug from plastic bags?
Well, well, sorting out the theory, let's get down to practice. For this case we need a hook number 3.5 or number 4, a scissors or a knife and a bunch of colored plastic bags that need to be cut in strips 3.5-4 cm wide. Moreover, the thicker the wall of the package, the narrower the stripes should be made, and vice versa. In any case, try to ensure that when twisting the strips in the flagellum, they all were less than the same thickness.
Then, at least in general terms, we should model the design of the future product. Think about how you want to see your rug - round, oval or rectangular. Maybe it will consist of identical or different in width strips, and maybe it will be chaotically variegated, like a chicken ryba. Or you masterly master the crochet and you can tie not just a rug, but a real flower arrangement, it's up to you. We'll go from simple.
How to tie a round mat out of packages?
The simplest option is a circle. Let it be made of red, yellow and green stripes of equal width, such a peculiar traffic light for the bathroom. The diameter of the rug is 50 cm, and the width of each strip is 5 cm.
Center the rug we make green. We take one strip, we knit 5 air loops and close them in a ring. Next, we knit 1 air loop, turn knitting in the other direction and tie the columns without a crochet into each of the 5 loops of the previous row, and in the 2nd and 4th loop we sew 2 loops for an increase. After tying up to the end of the row, again we make an air loop and turn knitting. Thus, we need to connect a green circle with a diameter of 5 cm.
The next color will be yellow. This strip is tied in exactly the same way as the middle, with columns without a crochet then into one, then into
After yellow there is a strip of red color. Its width is also 5 cm, and it is knitted exactly as the previous one. Thus, every 5 cm, change the color to the next. As a result, we will get 3 strips of each color and a green middle.
Round bath mat from the packages is ready. Put it in the center of the bathroom, let its diversity pleases the eye and animates the interior. And bathing their kids, you can also remind them about the rules of the road. Although this topic is a completely different article.