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.
How to make a small mat out of plastic bags.
Select bags that are the colors you want for your mat.
Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.
Tie the bags at each end until the cords are slightly over the desired length of your mat.
Gather the plastic bags.
Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn.
To start the rug get the grocery bags which already cut by the way if you live in an apartment and you don t want to be snowed under with bags cut them store them in a simple little box and you can store hundreds and hundreds of bags in a simple box which is good because the box can take 160 to 200 bags.
The plastic yarn is stickier than regular yarn so crochet very loosely.
Step 2 tie one end of the cord to a mop handle.
Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.
Plastic strip pick up the crochet hook in your right hand hold the dangling plastic ribbon in your left and slide the newly formed loop down the shank of the tool until the ring is about an inch.
Start by making a beginning chain until it is the required width of the mat.
Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet.
Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube.
John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.
This is a great way to involve your local church group knitting or crochet group youth group or scout organization with collecting and sorting the bags.
The plastic bags will melt to the iron.
A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags.
Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically.
From here you cut these into strips.
The thicker the strips the thicker your mat.
Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface.