Make A Door Mat From Plastic Bags

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Make a door mat from plastic bags.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Cut off the handles and the bottom of the bag with scissors. Hand made rug door mat carpets mate mats table mats diy recycl. How to make plarn.

To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over 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. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Fold the bag lengthwise in half. Craft 2315 265 240 views.

These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. 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. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat.

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. In this video i m going to show you how to recycling old clothes fabric in to useful things.