How To Make Plarn Mats

How to make a bed roll from plarn plastic bag yarn.

How to make plarn mats.

Make a loop at the end of the mat to secure the carrying strap as follows. If your bags are more than 4 wide cut them down or in half if they re 8. Flatten your first bag. How to make a bed roll from plarn plastic bag yarn.

Collect your plastic bags sort them by color. Make plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. Make plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

On last row single crochet 17 stitches. Cast on 72 stitches. The news reports always make it sound desperately exotic sleeping mats. Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting.

Cut off the top handles and the bottom. See where my scissors are located in the picture on top of the plastic. Then you ll attach the loops to one another to create your long piece of plastic fabric which you can then roll into a ball of yarn. By julie finn september 19 2016 5 35 am 1 comment.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Single crochet remaining 17 stitches to end. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. We will go through the steps below to make plarn and then the knitting and crocheting will.

Follow the link above for a helpful video tutorial to learn how to make plarn this way. Skip next 6 stitches. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. You ll create a knot in each strip to turn the strip into a large loop.

Cut 1 2 wide strips of plastic loops. Put two 2 strips together to make 4 ply plarn. Out of plastic bags but the truth is that it s totally do able. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

How to make plarn for a plarn project.