How To Make A Plastic Bag Sleeping Mat

Cast on 72 stitches.

How to make a plastic bag sleeping mat.

Thank you for caring about copyright. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

How to make plarn. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. 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. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. You are free to print 7 steps to making sleeping mats from recycled plastic bags for personal use or non commercial use with friends share this post link anywhere quote a short excerpt with attribution and a link to this site but you may not use this post in its entirety on your own page. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases.