How To Make Braided Sleeping Mat From Plastic Bags

Stop with the whining about using new bags already.

How to make braided sleeping mat from plastic bags.

For example the blue bags in my rug are from wal mart. How to make plarn. 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. Hope you enjoy it.

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Mom eberhard 183 198 views. 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. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

I organized it into a wiki for anyone with a hearing impairment or for those who just prefer to read the steps. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Cut the handles and down the side of shopping bags to flatten them out. I would like to thank mom eberhard for the awesome video on how to diy braided plastic bag rug.

Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Thank you for caring about copyright. So i first started using them to make plastic fabric as seen in this instructable plastic bag fabric i then remembered that people used to make rugs by braiding strips of fabric and then spiraling the braid outward but i couldn t find an example of using plastic bags to make a rug. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

Braided plastic bag rug part 1 duration. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn 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. Make a braided plastic bag rug.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. So i decided to make my own. 50 videos play all mix plastic bag sleeping mat tutorial youtube.