Plastic Grocery Bag Sleeping Mats

Stop with the whining about using new bags already.

Plastic grocery bag sleeping mats.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms. Once you ve pinned the bags into the proper spiral you re ready to fuse the backing on. I found 500 600 per mat with a regular size grocery bag less if bigger bags are used but i d count on a minimum of 500.

In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people. You should have a large enough sheet so that there is overlap all around. 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. Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn.

How to make plarn plastic bag yarn the first time i learned about plarn yarn created by cutting and tying together strips of plastic grocery bags was in 2005 when british designer erika knight was a guest on a tv show i used to host called knitty gritty she showed it made using a rainbow variety of bags an array of which i have yet to come across here in the states and knitted into a. Wonderful community service project to reuse plastic bags and craft the bags into sleeping mats for homeless and those in need. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Selecting the bags only plastic grocery bags 12 x 14 are suitable for this process.

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. The bags used to make the mats. First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface. We have two collection barrels in prominent places in the church where bags are deposited regularly by congregation members.

Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral. The backing is simply another plastic bag split open. Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. Larger and or stiffer plastic department store bags produce bags dry cleaning bags and.

How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Now for a plastic grocery bag that s standard in size and in thickness cut each bag into 4 rings. Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.