How To Make A Sleeping Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral.

How to make a sleeping mat out of plastic bags.

Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Cast on 72 stitches. In this video i demonstrate how to make a sleeping mat with recyclable grocery bags. Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically.

Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet. Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface. From here you cut these into strips.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. The thicker the strips the thicker your mat.

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. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Here s one tutorial for making a plarn sleeping mat and here s another tutorial and if you re on ravelry here s another although you ll have to log in or create a free account to view it. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

Opting to use green canvas bags for your grocery shopping is an effective option but many people still have excess plastic bags lying about the place. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. The plastic bags will melt to the iron.

Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. All you need is a pair of scissors crochet hook and chained grocery bag.