Making Cat Mats From Plastic Bags

The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills.

Making cat mats from plastic bags. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat.

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Cast on 72 stitches. Like sleeping mats and blankets.

The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. This is another way to do it that can. How to recycle plastic shopping bags into something useful.

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. Each mat takes about 50 hours to make. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. 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. I showed you a while ago how to upcycle plastic grocery bags into a usable knitting crocheting material known as plarn. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Homeless or refugees camping mats. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.