How To Make A Floor Mat From Plastic Bags

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.

How to make a floor mat from plastic bags.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. 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.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.

With just some waste plastic bags tyre tube this floor mat is made its very sturdy and should last long please follow the video for step by step procedure of this easy craft bestoutofwaste. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. Cast on 72 stitches. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors.