Plastic Shopping Bag Mats

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases.

Plastic shopping bag mats.

The easiest way to do this is to shop at different places. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Sometimes a store will change the color of their bags but this is rare. If you use reusable shopping bags gathering bags might be quite difficult.

The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain. Nancy mozeleski second from left and volunteers from the village at orchard ridge in winchester va hold sleeping mats they crocheted from disposable. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Old plastic shopping bags get new life.

Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. This article demonstrates how to create the ribbon of plastic. If you want a multi colored rug you must collect bags of different colors.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat.

You simply save your plastic bags after you go shopping. 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. If you have decided to knit or crochet a bag from plastic bags you ll need to know how to prepare the plastic bag first. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. How to prepare plastic bags for knitting or crochet. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.

Cast on 72 stitches.