How To Make A Mat From Plastic Bags

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.

How to make a mat from plastic bags.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

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. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. 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. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. How to make plarn. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Cast on 72 stitches.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. 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.