Make A Door Mat From Plastic Bags

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

Make a door mat from plastic bags.

Table mat प र न ग ह च वल क plastic ब र floor mat door mat area rug carpet best out of waste duration. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags.

Fold the bag lengthwise in half. Lay a plastic grocery bag flat on a table. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. 500 700 plastic shopping bags for a person sized mat but can vary depending on what you re using the mat for 10mm or larger crochet hook.

Craft 2315 265 240 views. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Materials to make a sleep 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.

Cut off the handles and the bottom of the bag with scissors. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. How to make plarn. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. Hand made rug door mat carpets mate mats table mats diy recycl.