Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

I am amazed by the creativity of people.

Plastic bag sleeping mats.

These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Don t want to make a full mat. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Cast on 72 stitches.

The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain. Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Regardless of who uses it it s a great way to recycle. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. 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. 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. 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. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.

Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats. The bag ladies as they call themselves also specialize in making large tote bags out of the plastic. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

We ll stitch them together to create a full mat. 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. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat.

Make a portion and send it to us.