How To Make A Sleeping Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn.

How to make a sleeping mat out of plastic bags.

All you need is a pair of scissors crochet hook and chained grocery bag. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. In this video i demonstrate how to make a sleeping mat with recyclable grocery bags.

Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube. The plastic bags will melt to the iron. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet.

Out of plastic bags but the truth is that it s totally do able. Cast on 72 stitches. The news reports always make it sound desperately exotic sleeping mats. Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral. Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface. The thicker the strips the thicker your mat. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. 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. From here you cut these into strips.