Plastic Shopping Bag Mats

If you use reusable shopping bags gathering bags might be quite difficult.

Plastic shopping bag mats.

Cast on 72 stitches. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. You simply save your plastic bags after you go shopping.

How to prepare plastic bags for knitting or crochet. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Old plastic shopping bags get new life. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.

The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Sometimes a store will change the color of their bags but this is rare. Nancy mozeleski second from left and volunteers from the village at orchard ridge in winchester va hold sleeping mats they crocheted from disposable.

One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. The easiest way to do this is to shop at different places. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. 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.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. If you want a multi colored rug you must collect bags of different colors. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe.