Make A Door Mat From Plastic Bags

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Make a door mat from plastic bags. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Fold the bag lengthwise in half. 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. 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.

The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.

These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

Lay a plastic grocery bag flat on a table. Cut off the handles and the bottom of the bag with scissors. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. In this video i m going to show you how to recycling old clothes fabric in to useful things.

Craft 2315 265 240 views. 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.