Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

Be a folder return the bags in their original shape.

Plastic bag sleeping mats. 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. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Don t want to make a full mat.

How to make plarn. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people. 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. We ll stitch them together to create a full mat.

Be a cutter cut off the bag s handles as well as an inch from. Make a portion and send it to us. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Be a collector collect clean plastic bags from the grocery store and other places.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Here are step by step directions on how to make a plastic bag sleeping mat.

Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time.

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The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Cast on 72 stitches.