Plastic Shopping Bag Mats

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

Plastic shopping bag mats.

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases.

If you have decided to knit or crochet a bag from plastic bags you ll need to know how to prepare the plastic bag first. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Nancy mozeleski second from left and volunteers from the village at orchard ridge in winchester va hold sleeping mats they crocheted from disposable. This article demonstrates how to create the ribbon of plastic.

How to prepare plastic bags for knitting or crochet. It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. The easiest way to do this is to shop at different places. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

You simply save your plastic bags after you go shopping. 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. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. If you want a multi colored rug you must collect bags of different colors. Old plastic shopping bags get new life. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

Sometimes a store will change the color of their bags but this is rare. If you use reusable shopping bags gathering bags might be quite difficult. Cast on 72 stitches. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.