How To Make A Floor Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags.

How to make a floor mat out of plastic bags.

Gather the plastic bags. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags.

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. How to make plarn. Cast on 72 stitches.

Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. 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. Basic knit sleep mat recipe.

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. This is a great way to involve your local church group knitting or crochet group youth group or scout organization with collecting and sorting the bags. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. 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.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.