How To Make Trash Bag Mats

Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches.

How to make trash bag mats.

The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. 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. Once the bags are cut you lay the bag open with the original outside pretty side of the bag down.

Sarah lewitan taped two trash bags together to create a do it yourself hazmat suit before boarding a flight from new york to los angeles. Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Each mat takes about 50 hours to make. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. The bags are cut along both side seams through the handles.

Make sure you cut all the way through the folded part but try not to cut into the unfolded part of the bag. This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate. The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months. The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills.

About every inch or 2 5 cm cut the folded part of the bag with vertical slits. To make usable strips you must cut and fold each bag. This is the easiest way to get the bag to lay flat and it also requires the least amount of cuts. This plane is packed.

How to make plarn. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms.