How To Make A Small Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

It is a good idea to make the beginning chain an extra inch wide that way if your tension is tight and the mat slightly shrinks it will still be big enough.

How to make a small mat out of plastic bags.

Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube. Start by making a beginning chain until it is the required width of the mat. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

The thicker the strips the thicker your mat. Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn. The plastic bags will melt to the iron. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come.

Step 2 tie one end of the cord to a mop handle. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral. From here you cut these into strips.

This is a great way to involve your local church group knitting or crochet group youth group or scout organization with collecting and sorting the bags. The plastic yarn is stickier than regular yarn so crochet very loosely. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. Plastic strip pick up the crochet hook in your right hand hold the dangling plastic ribbon in your left and slide the newly formed loop down the shank of the tool until the ring is about an inch.

Gather the plastic bags. Select bags that are the colors you want for your mat. Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically. Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet.

First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface.