How To Make A Small Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface.

How to make a small mat out of plastic bags.

Tie the bags at each end until the cords are slightly over the desired length of your mat. Start by making a beginning chain until it is the required width of the mat. 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. Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral.

Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn. From here you cut these into strips.

Plastic strip pick up the crochet hook in your right hand hold the dangling plastic ribbon in your left and slide the newly formed loop down the shank of the tool until the ring is about an inch. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. 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. The plastic bags will melt to the iron.

Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface. Select bags that are the colors you want for your mat. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. The plastic yarn is stickier than regular yarn so crochet very loosely.

Gather the plastic bags. Step 2 tie one end of the cord to a mop handle. It is a good idea to make the beginning chain an extra inch wide that way if your tension is tight and the mat slightly shrinks it will still be big enough. The thicker the strips the thicker your mat.

To start the rug get the grocery bags which already cut by the way if you live in an apartment and you don t want to be snowed under with bags cut them store them in a simple little box and you can store hundreds and hundreds of bags in a simple box which is good because the box can take 160 to 200 bags.