Making Cat Mats From Plastic Bags

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Making cat mats from plastic bags. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Cast on 72 stitches. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. I showed you a while ago how to upcycle plastic grocery bags into a usable knitting crocheting material known as plarn.

Each mat takes about 50 hours to make. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.

How to recycle plastic shopping bags into something useful. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Like sleeping mats and blankets. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months. Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Homeless or refugees camping mats.

Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags.