How To Make A Sleeping Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.

How to make a sleeping mat out of plastic bags.

From here you cut these into strips. First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube. The plastic bags will melt to the iron. Cast on 72 stitches.

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Here s one tutorial for making a plarn sleeping mat and here s another tutorial and if you re on ravelry here s another although you ll have to log in or create a free account to view it. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. 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.

Opting to use green canvas bags for your grocery shopping is an effective option but many people still have excess plastic bags lying about the place. The thicker the strips the thicker your mat. Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet. The news reports always make it sound desperately exotic sleeping mats.

Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically. Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn. Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Out of plastic bags but the truth is that it s totally do able. In this video i demonstrate how to make a sleeping mat with recyclable grocery bags. Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral.