Making Sleeping Mats From Plastic Bags

The follow up article included more details about how to make the mats.

Making sleeping mats from plastic bags.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. 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. 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. Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. In this video i demonstrate how to make a sleeping mat with recyclable grocery bags. 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. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat.

Be a collector collect clean plastic bags from the grocery store and other places. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.

All you need is a pair of scissors crochet hook and chained grocery bag. Be a folder return the bags in their original shape. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Basic knit sleep mat recipe.

The bags should be in good shape and not full of holes. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Here are step by step directions on how to make a plastic bag sleeping mat.

Cast on 72 stitches.