How To Make A Floor Mat From Plastic Bags

Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

How to make a floor mat from plastic bags. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Basic knit sleep mat recipe.

The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. 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.

Cast on 72 stitches. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

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. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches.

Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms.