How To Make A Sleeping Mat From Plastic Bags
Stop with the whining about using new bags already.
How to make a sleeping mat from plastic bags. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.
Thank you for caring about copyright. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. 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. Basic knit sleep mat recipe.
Cast on 72 stitches. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.
How to make plarn. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.