How To Knit Mats Out Of Plastic Bags

Cast on 72 stitches.

How to knit mats out of plastic bags.

Crochet or knit the rows. The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. This article demonstrates how to create the ribbon of plastic needed for creating the plastic yarn that you can use for knitting or crocheting your new bag.

Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. 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. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. Be a cutter cut off the bags handles as well as an inch from the bottom of the bags.

Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. 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.

This is a great way to involve your local church group knitting or crochet group youth group or scout organization with collecting and sorting the bags. In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people. It is a. Be a plarn maker link the loops to form plarn plastic yarn and roll them into balls like you would with a ball of yarn.

It is quite easy to knit with plastic bags and there are a number of ways to produce yarn from plastic bags for the purpose of creating knitted projects. Once knitters get the hand of making plastic bag yarn and working with it they can create a variety of knitted projects from tote bags to sun hats. Then cut the bags into 2 inch loops. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.