Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms.

Plastic bag sleeping mats.

Regardless of who uses it it s a great way to recycle. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. Cast on 72 stitches. In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people. Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats.

Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. I read an article where people are making rectangular mats out of plastic bags as well to be used by the homeless for sleep mats during the wet season. It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. Make a portion and send it to us.

Taking something that will forever sit in a landfill and repurposing it in such a creative way. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. I am going to try this. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

We ll stitch them together to create a full mat. Don t want to make a full mat. 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. 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.

I am amazed by the creativity of people. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. The bag ladies as they call themselves also specialize in making large tote bags out of the plastic. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.