Making Cat Mats From Plastic Bags

Cast on 72 stitches.

Making cat mats from plastic bags.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Like sleeping mats and blankets. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.

This is another way to do it that can. 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. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. How to recycle plastic shopping bags into something useful. Each mat takes about 50 hours to make. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. I showed you a while ago how to upcycle plastic grocery bags into a usable knitting crocheting material known as plarn. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Homeless or refugees camping mats. 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.

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches.

Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.