How To Make A Small Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

How to make a small mat out of plastic bags. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. 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. The plastic yarn is stickier than regular yarn so crochet very loosely. Gather the plastic bags.

Select bags that are the colors you want for your mat. 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. Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet. Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface.

The thicker the strips the thicker your mat. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. From here you cut these into strips. 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.

Step 2 tie one end of the cord to a mop handle. 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 bags will melt to the iron. Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically.

Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface. Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral.

Start by making a beginning chain until it is the required width of the mat.