You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.
How to make sleeping mats out of plastic bags.
Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.
Cast on 72 stitches.
This can then be cut into four strips that become loops when opened up.
Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.
Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.
Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.
Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.
How these women crochet sleeping mats for homeless people out of plastic bags why we wrote this usually plastic bags are solely utilitarian and more and more they re maligned.
Crochet two rows of a single crochet to form a tie that is 80 inches long.
Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.
Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle.
Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.
Be a collector collect clean plastic bags from the grocery store and other places.
From here you cut these into strips.
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.
The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.
Start at the third loop to make your second row.
Crochet from front to back so that it does not pucker up.
John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.
Connect the tie to the mat so the mat can be rolled up and carried like a sleeping bag.
Basic knit sleep mat recipe.
Be a cutter cut off the bag s handles as well as an inch from the bottom of the bag.
The thicker the strips the thicker your mat.
Knit the mat using size 19 knitting needles.
Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube.
Be a folder return the bags in their original shape.
Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases 2.
Here are step by step directions on how to make a plastic bag sleeping mat.
Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.
Continue until the mat is 6 feet long.