How To Make A Floor Mat From Plastic Bags

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.

How to make a floor mat from plastic bags.

Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. 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. 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. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. 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.

Cast on 72 stitches. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches.