Making Sleeping Mats From Plastic Bags

How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

Making sleeping mats from plastic bags.

The bags should be in good shape and not full of holes. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. One quarter to one third of the bags that are used to make a mat have to be strung on the loom before the weaver can start weaving. Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats. This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate.

Plastic bags are one of the worst offenders of the wasteful products that are polluting the earth s oceans and occupying the limited space of landfills. All you need is a pair of scissors crochet hook and chained grocery bag. How to make a sleeping mat with plastic yarn plarn. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Basic knit sleep mat recipe.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. In this video i demonstrate how to make a sleeping mat with recyclable grocery bags. The follow up article included more details about how to make the mats. The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms.

Be a folder return the bags in their original shape. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Here are step by step directions on how to make a plastic bag sleeping mat. Cast on 72 stitches.

Be a collector collect clean plastic bags from the grocery store and other places.