Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people.

Plastic bag sleeping mats.

Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats. 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. Cast on 72 stitches. 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. 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.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Don t want to make a full mat. Regardless of who uses it it s a great way to recycle. We ll stitch them together to create a full mat.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain. Taking something that will forever sit in a landfill and repurposing it in such a creative way. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat.

I am amazed by the creativity of people. It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Basic knit sleep mat recipe.

Make a portion and send it to us. 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. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.