Plastic Shopping Bag Mats

It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat.

Plastic shopping bag mats.

Sometimes a store will change the color of their bags but this is rare. This article demonstrates how to create the ribbon of plastic. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Cast on 72 stitches.

You simply save your plastic bags after you go shopping. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Nancy mozeleski second from left and volunteers from the village at orchard ridge in winchester va hold sleeping mats they crocheted from disposable. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle.

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. Old plastic shopping bags get new life. If you use reusable shopping bags gathering bags might be quite difficult. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

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. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. How to prepare plastic bags for knitting or crochet. If you want a multi colored rug you must collect bags of different colors.

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.