The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills.
Making cat mats from plastic bags.
Each mat takes about 50 hours to make.
Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.
I showed you a while ago how to upcycle plastic grocery bags into a usable knitting crocheting material known as plarn.
Stop with the whining about using new bags already.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors.
Basic knit sleep mat recipe.
How to recycle plastic shopping bags into something useful.
Like sleeping mats and blankets.
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.
One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.
John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.
This is another way to do it that can.
How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.
Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.
All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.
Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.
Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches.
Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.
Cast on 72 stitches.
Homeless or refugees camping mats.
Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.
Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.
Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags.
The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat.
Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.
Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.