Plastic Shopping Bag Mats

Basic knit sleep mat recipe.

Plastic shopping bag mats. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Nancy mozeleski second from left and volunteers from the village at orchard ridge in winchester va hold sleeping mats they crocheted from disposable. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. How to prepare plastic bags for knitting or crochet.

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. The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain. If you want a multi colored rug you must collect bags of different colors. Old plastic shopping bags get new life.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. 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. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. Cast on 72 stitches. Sometimes a store will change the color of their bags but this is rare. This article demonstrates how to create the ribbon of plastic.

The easiest way to do this is to shop at different places.