How To Make A Floor Mat From Plastic Bags

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

How to make a floor mat from plastic bags.

40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.

Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.

To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. 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. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat.

Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Cast on 72 stitches. You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.