How To Make A Sleeping Mat From Plastic Bags

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

How to make a sleeping mat from plastic bags.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. How to make plarn. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. 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. You are free to print 7 steps to making sleeping mats from recycled plastic bags for personal use or non commercial use with friends share this post link anywhere quote a short excerpt with attribution and a link to this site but you may not use this post in its entirety on your own page.

Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Thank you for caring about copyright. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.