Plastic Shopping Bag Mats

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 shopping bag mats.

It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Nancy mozeleski second from left and volunteers from the village at orchard ridge in winchester va hold sleeping mats they crocheted from disposable.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

This article demonstrates how to create the ribbon of plastic. How to prepare plastic bags for knitting or crochet. 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. Sometimes a store will change the color of their bags but this is rare.

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. 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.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. The easiest way to do this is to shop at different places.

You simply save your plastic bags after you go shopping. If you use reusable shopping bags gathering bags might be quite difficult. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle.