How To Make A Mat From Plastic 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.

How to make a mat from plastic bags.

Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. How to make plarn. 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. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. 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. 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. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. 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. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors.

These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. 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. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat.