Making Cat Mats From Plastic Bags

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors.

Making cat mats from plastic bags.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat.

I showed you a while ago how to upcycle plastic grocery bags into a usable knitting crocheting material known as plarn. Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. 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.

Like sleeping mats and blankets. This is another way to do it that can. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Homeless or refugees camping mats. Cast on 72 stitches. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Each mat takes about 50 hours to make.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

How to recycle plastic shopping bags into something useful. The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills.