How To Make A Sleeping Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

How to make a sleeping mat out of plastic bags.

Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Out of plastic bags but the truth is that it s totally do able.

The plastic bags will melt to the iron. From here you cut these into strips. Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically. The news reports always make it sound desperately exotic sleeping mats.

Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral. The thicker the strips the thicker your mat. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Opting to use green canvas bags for your grocery shopping is an effective option but many people still have excess plastic bags lying about the place.

Cast on 72 stitches. Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Here s one tutorial for making a plarn sleeping mat and here s another tutorial and if you re on ravelry here s another although you ll have to log in or create a free account to view it. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn.

Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. All you need is a pair of scissors crochet hook and chained grocery bag. First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface.