Making Sleeping Mats From Plastic Bags

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.
Making sleeping mats from plastic bags. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. In this video i demonstrate how to make a sleeping mat with recyclable grocery bags.
Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Here are step by step directions on how to make a plastic bag sleeping mat. The bags should be in good shape and not full of holes. One quarter to one third of the bags that are used to make a mat have to be strung on the loom before the weaver can start weaving.
Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Be a folder return the bags in their original shape.
Plastic bags are one of the worst offenders of the wasteful products that are polluting the earth s oceans and occupying the limited space of landfills. 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. Cast on 72 stitches. Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough.
Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the. Be a collector collect clean plastic bags from the grocery store and other places. Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats. The follow up article included more details about how to make the mats.
How to make a sleeping mat with plastic yarn plarn.