How To Make Plastic Bags Into Mats

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

How to make plastic bags into mats.

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. Younger children can help turn the bags into a plastic yarn known as plarn the sturdy plarn can also be used to make placemats market bags and coasters. It takes 700 plastic bags to make a 6 foot tall mat with two inch straps and carry handle. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Plastic bags are brought into the library. To make the mats plastic bags are cut into 4 inch strips and looped together to make plarn or plastic yarn.

How to make plarn. How to make plarn plastic bag yarn the first time i learned about plarn yarn created by cutting and tying together strips of plastic grocery bags was in 2005 when british designer erika knight was a guest on a tv show i used to host called knitty gritty she showed it made using a rainbow variety of bags an array of which i have yet to come across here in the states and knitted into a. While the blue or yellow bags can be mostly sorted together the white bags tend to have accent colors that can come out in the finished rug. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. As an amazon associate i earn from qualifying purchases. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together.