How To Make A Sleeping Mat From Plastic Bags

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases.

How to make a sleeping mat from plastic bags.

Cast on 72 stitches. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. 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. How to make plarn.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Thank you for caring about copyright. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. You are free to print 7 steps to making sleeping mats from recycled plastic bags for personal use or non commercial use with friends share this post link anywhere quote a short excerpt with attribution and a link to this site but you may not use this post in its entirety on your own page.