Making Cat Mats From Plastic Bags

Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags.

Making cat mats from plastic bags.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months. Like sleeping mats and blankets. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. How to recycle plastic shopping bags into something useful.

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 goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.

This is another way to do it that can. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Homeless or refugees camping mats. I showed you a while ago how to upcycle plastic grocery bags into a usable knitting crocheting material known as plarn.

Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. Each mat takes about 50 hours to make.

How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills.