The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.
How to make a sleeping mat out of plastic bags.
Here s one tutorial for making a plarn sleeping mat and here s another tutorial and if you re on ravelry here s another although you ll have to log in or create a free account to view it.
In this video i demonstrate how to make a sleeping mat with recyclable grocery bags.
Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.
The plastic bags will melt to the iron.
Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.
Cast on 72 stitches.
The news reports always make it sound desperately exotic sleeping mats.
Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.
All you need is a pair of scissors crochet hook and chained grocery bag.
John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.
Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn.
Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn.
Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.
Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface.
Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically.
The thicker the strips the thicker your mat.
Basic knit sleep mat recipe.
Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube.
Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral.
First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface.
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 yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.
Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet.
Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.
You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.
Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.