How To Make A Mat From Plastic Bags

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.

How to make a mat from plastic bags.

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. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Cast on 72 stitches. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

500 700 plastic shopping bags for a person sized mat but can vary depending on what you re using the mat for 10mm or larger crochet hook. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. How to make plarn. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors.