Directions For Making Mats From Plastic Bags

Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2.

Directions for making mats from plastic bags.

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. Yes they can be used to make plarn. Place bag on the table and flatten from the bottom seam out straightening the handle as needed. Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube.

December 6 2018 at 8 44 pm. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Using the bag handles shake the bag to open straighten and remove air.

Just as with a larger plastic bag follow the directions and can easily make the newspaper bags into plarn. More than one bag can be cut a time. Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically. Make sure that the bag is right side out.

Make sure all bags are uncrumpled turned right side out and flattened. 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. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher. The thicker the strips the thicker your mat.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Flatten bags as flat as possible following steps 1 4 below. From here you cut these into strips.

How to make plarn. Chain 2 hdc in next stitch and to end. This article demonstrates how to create the ribbon of plastic needed for creating the plastic yarn that you can use for knitting or crocheting your new bag. Repeat until all bags are done.

Select bags that are the colors you want for your mat. Otherwise it is impossible to flatten the bag properly with the gusset folded in. Most frequently the bags we receive are crumpled 3. Approx 58 plastic bags or 504 yards of plarn size 12 mm crochet hook scissors.

Two people can make quick work of a lot of bags if one person is making sure the bags are uncrumpled flattening and stacking bags and the other is cutting. Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come. Repeat step 4 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Hdc half double crochet in 3rd chain from hook and to end. Cut off handles and bottom seam step 3.