Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn.

Plastic bag sleeping mats.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. I am amazed by the creativity of people. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people. Opting to use green canvas bags for your grocery shopping is an effective option but many people still have excess plastic bags lying about the place. I read an article where people are making rectangular mats out of plastic bags as well to be used by the homeless for sleep mats during the wet season. Don t want to make a full mat.

The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. The bag ladies as they call themselves also specialize in making large tote bags out of the plastic. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Regardless of who uses it it s a great way to recycle. One quarter to one third of the bags that are used to make a mat have to be strung on the loom before the weaver can start weaving. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors.

It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. Cast on 72 stitches. Taking something that will forever sit in a landfill and repurposing it in such a creative way. The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain.

Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. I am going to try this. We ll stitch them together to create a full mat. The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.