How To Make A Floor Mat From Plastic Bags

Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

How to make a floor mat from plastic bags. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors.

With just some waste plastic bags tyre tube this floor mat is made its very sturdy and should last long please follow the video for step by step procedure of this easy craft bestoutofwaste. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. While the blue or yellow bags can be mostly sorted together the white bags tend to have accent colors that can come out in the finished rug.

Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.