Make A Plastic Mat From Plastic Bags

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors.

Make a plastic mat from plastic bags.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Aug 27 2020 explore joyce lyles s board plastic mat on pinterest.

Cast on 72 stitches. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. 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.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. How to make plarn. 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. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.

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. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. See more ideas about plastic bag crafts recycled plastic bags plastic bag crochet.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. 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.

Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors you can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat.