Very nice tutorial! I love how clear you are and thorough. I am almost done with my first mat! I used to be homeless so I have an understanding of what it is like to be out in the cold (or heat). I'm so glad to be able to help others who are homeless now.

Greetings from Japan. We had, some fifty years ago, woven rice straw mat called Mushiro. We played on it. Since I've never known how to weave it, I am glad to know how to do it. Thank you for the video.

Amazing the work you are doing there. May the Lord bless you all, God bless from a UK Veteran.

This is incredible! I've never seen a peg loom before and I think this is the way to go for my students. We'll be collecting plastic bags and putting together mats for the homeless this school year. Thank you so much for sharing!

Thanks for sharing your talent and God Bless you and whomever receives your gift!

I wish someone would make me one of these for camping , Beautiful! ❤

Thank you for sharing with us. Anything that we can do to help our Vets and the other unfortunate people that have no homes makes a difference.

Thanks for showing a different way to finish off. The wooden bar idea is great, I was shown to use a much bigger piece but the dowel is a great idea. I was also taught to finish off by knotting together groups of warp threads and making a fringe, great for most things like rugs and blankets but a nuisance when making clothing. Will remember this and use for woven clothes, so much neater.

Thanks bunches for explaining everything very well. I’m a totally newbie at peg loom weaving, and I tell confident enough to job right in as soon as my peg loom arrives.

Just a guy type suggestion: finishing and/or waxing the pegs and holes might make the task go more smoothly (pun definitely intended) and enlarging the holes with a file or drill will make threading them easier. A piece of coat hanger or other wire bent into a roughly hairpin shape could be used to thread through the pegs.

I wish we could see what you will be making before you show us the technique. Thanks for the video! ❤️

Use a crochet hook to pull through the hole. Faster, easier, and less damage

I really liked this tutorial. Thank you so much for sharing with us, you are an excellent teacher, very well explained! I will try to do something with all the bags I have.

Thank you for sharing this. Wonderful! Glory and Praise be to God in the name of Jesus Christ!

Very well done. Back in the day the old Micmac tradition was quite similar. Obviously not with plastic bags, but with sweetgrass intermixed with whatever was to hand, like wild black grape vine or ash willow. When I was a child I was taught to save and use string and yarn, but we made it thicker and stronger through knotting technique similar to macrame, or my favorite, finger weaving or finger crochet. We used long knitting needles on a wooden game bench the old men played cards on. Or if you look at it another way, we sometimes let them play on our weaving board. I used mom’s broom for the bottom, turned the bench on its side in front of me while the broom was against my outstretched feet for tension. Really very similar, the goal was a barrier from the cold floor underneath your bed roll and/or a place to put feet on in the morning. What I am wondering is how a homeless person could keep one of these, they don’t look easy to roll up for transport, but perhaps I am wrong? Also, wet plastic can breed some pretty terrible molds, that would worry me. This is truly a wonderful way to reduce the American waste stream, though, I had heard about it but not seen it demonstrated. We used to collect materials all summer then weave over Christmas break. We did similar work on a circular board, I wonder if a peg board for your work could be done in a circle as well. The circle board created leg and arm warmers, and I remember someone telling me that was kind of what a knitting machine would do. Not the big ones, that was what they called a little round thing with needles that spun out like a knitted fabric, it was about the size and shape of a crank pencil sharpener. I guess I will have to look into what you do further. Thank you for perpetuating weaving craft.

Great instruction. Thank you very much. I crochet rugs but this would be something new to try. Crochet for me is faster and more portable as I can do in the car or anywhere.👌🏻

What a good idea. You tought me to ask my neighbors for their plastic bags ( I have thick fabric bags) .thank you for your wonderful idea and easy to understand the tutorial.

This makes a beautiful mat! Wonderful!

Btw, my dog loves to lay on the mat as I work (I'm sitting on the floor to do this. Probably why the yarn balls got so tight when unwinding?) Anyways I think I could make one for him using half the pegs. He's a chihuahua mix named Scruffy. Also a rescue. ❤

this reminds me of when i was a kid ,making the old potholders at the rec -center same concept, just on a larger scale.

Nice video, very informative and with a little imagination this loom can be used to make blankets, rugs, etc., with all types of materials. Thank you. P.S. ignore the "background noise, plastic is gross or a waste" comments, you're not responsible for other people's inability to focus or appreciate your time and effort. Once again thank you.

greetings form Indonesia, very good tutorial for reuse the plastic bag...

Very useful! It is also possible to crochet rugs using the plastic bags as yarn. We had one for years made out of cut up socks! We called it our “Ugly Rug”, but it worked great in front of the door to our mud room. Didn’t have to feel bad about “ruining “ a real rug. : }

Great video and you ladies are wonderful. Thank you so much for all your efforts.

This is beautiful and I love your church been there several times.

This is awesome! People throw these bags away by the dozen every day. Wouldn't take long to collect a pile of them. It would be cool too to say hold a lunch for these folks & let them get in on the weaving.

Amazing what can be done with plastic bags thank you.🥰

thank you for sharing your craft!

I would use a crochet hook to pull it through and I like the suggestion of waxing the pegs/holes too. Very interesting and useful.

This is wonderful, please make more things to show us avid crafters, thanks for sharing :)

Very interesting.... thank you for the video and websites. I've read some of the comments below(the voices didn't bother me)and I have to say I've never been in a room with other women and it's been dead silent....just saying. Does it not say, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord", so bless you and the "voices" and continue your joyful work caring about the needs of others!

I love this! I finally know how to do it! Thank you so much for teachning the technic!

Excelente. Felicitaciones por el reciclado y por la explicación paso a paso. Buenos Aires. Argentina.

Thank you for the tutorial. Your explanation is very informative. Going to start one

Amanda I wanted to tell you.. I found an "easier" way to thread the bags into the holes; I cut some yarn and then inserted into the loop of the bad; I then inserted the yarn into the hole. Now there is a bit of push and pull with the yarn and plastic bag .. but... it goes SO MUCH faster !

Looks like a good way to reuse plastic waste, luckily we've reduced our usage to the point where my family doesn't have enough to make something like this but I love how thrifty it is!

God bless you! Thanks!

For anyone looking for ideas for making a loom, I took a couple of old wooden smaller shutters and removed all the slats (I saved them for other diy projects). Each slat I removed left a perfect hole for pegs! I took the shutters apart so I had two pieces of wood with all these holes. I glued them together with wood glue. I happened to have a bunch of wooden dowels around so I cut them down for my pegs! I’m getting ready to try it out but I found drilling holes into the dowels extremely difficult so I’m going to try knotting my loops around each peg-I hope it works! If anyone wants more information I’ll try and post pictures!!! I just had to have one of these!!

This is such a great idea in so many ways - helping theh homeless in a significant way and reusing plastic bags, which are impossible to avoid entirely. I'd love to know what other outreach programs your church has.

You could probably use a twist tie to feed the plastic through maybe a bit easier.

Thank you for this tutorial with very clear instructions. This is a wonderful blessing for a homeless person. Great job, doing God’s work!

Those are beautiful and I'm sure greatly appreciated.

At the very beginning, how do you loop the four bags together?

this is fantastic...thank you so kindly for sharing

Awesome pattern. I love this and im making it now. Thank you for sharing it to us.

Criticism is not aimed at crafter, I am sure. But, really, the talking in background is distracting and not all of us are so gifted as to be able to focus over it. Love the tutorial. Well done

Enjoyed this Video and the knowledge to do this. "Joyful Noise" was fine. Too bad some people are so Negative.

This is wonderful! Single use plastic bags have been banned in my neck of the woods, which I do approve of (though we have a growing population of homeless, which is sad and frustrating, so we'll have to find a different take on this), but I love that you are taking something that can be so harmful to the environment and removing it from the waste stream, and then doing something so loving and good for your community with it, that's awesome. AND creating something that is hard wearing, won't soak up water and be unusable when wet, and yet would be very easy to clean, whilst being comfortable, very lightweight to carry, and insulating, so creating something that is perfect and practical for its purpose as well. It's such a well thought out idea, and just the time you put into it is amazing. You're doing great, good on you!!

Soooo very clever. 👍🏻🌹

Could be used with other cloths such as bed sheets or curtains anything

This is great! I have so many shopping bags piling up too. Thanks!

What a amazing thing to do... If you go camping you could use it too..

This is an awesome idea. Great job.

Awesome idea...so glad you came up with this one....thanks....got a use for my bags now....xxx

Thank you for sharing this method. What a labor of love for sure. Would you please let us know what size do you make the strips and how you connect them.

awesome. thank you

Thats lovely, thank you for the beautiful video xx

Wow!!God bless your hands!🤗🙏👏🙋‍♀️❤👑

To all the complaints on this thread: This is a free lesson provided by a church. If you're upset by church ladies talking in the background (as of today almost 3 yrs ago) maybe calm down and be thankful. Maybe they've made changes in planning their videos since 2017. Maybe they're too busy caring for the homeless to read your obnoxious comments. There are much better ways to suggest improvements than to insult the volunteer teacher. Thank you Amanda and Good Shepherd Church for sharing your technique. ✌️

Super original este trabajo de Manualidad ..mencanta👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Is there a pattern to build the loom. I've seen them with 30 - 38 pegs. Can one just adjust the spacing of the pegs to produce a mat that is the desired width?

You could make a needle out of piping or any soft bendable thin metal even twist ties . Just to help with initial plastic string/ loop going thru the pegs hole .

You know I bet these would be wonderful as insulation used with a blanket for some homeless ❤️

how do you prepare the bags to use? Would have been nice to inlude that or another video to instruct on that. Thanks.

Amazing. Well done.

That's a great looking mat. Your church should give classes to homeless people so they can learn to do it for themselves. You know what Jesus says, " give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach him to fish and he will feed himself."

What are the 12 bags rolled for weaving used for; I understand the 30 for looming.

That's a great idea, never seen that before! Definitely going to try it. A bit of work though, first making the loom :)

Is there a video for the bag strip prep? Looks like strips, how are they cut, and how are they tied together?

I had wanted to make these for the homeless. Then I saw a post that mentioned they stayed wet and got moldy. Better for camping mats.

Thx for this video..sometimes we fail yo remember the homeless in our day to dsy life..thx so much for doing this video .I never thought of mats for them.. . I love to crochet.scarves..out of leftover yarn.. .that's best for .me ..i hv crocheted throw rugs out of these bags..they last a long time..nice for wiping feet on when coming into the .house..those with looms this is great too.. thx for sharing the idea..I will make it a point to do more for the homeless. .May God's best always be yours..

Fun LOL Thank you for sharing.

Very nice 🎉❤

Nice mam , good bless you. How mam.?!!!!! Excellent finishing .superb mam

Amanda... incredible demo!! Thanks so much for sharing. Please tell me the size of the hold that you drilled in the peg(s). I'm assuming a 1/2 inch diameter peg and probably a 3/8 inch hole in the peg?? Right?? Thanks again for the terrific video. Very well done!!

Hi, could you use a larger crochet hook to end off your ends rather than fingers?

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Thank you, that was awesome. I did have a bit of a time hearing you the ladies in the back were rude.

Absolutely ingenious!!!! Nice!!

You can find peg looms on Etsy.

I'm starting to collect plastic bags to make mats for local homeless in the Illawarra, Australia. Is a warp 'loop' a whole plastic bag or cut strips ... if strips how wide please? What are the finished woven mat dimensions & how many plastic bags for weaving the weft? What's the dimensions for loom & pegs. So many questions I know but hopefully I can get some answers. Cheers & thanks from Australia 🐨 🐾

there's a step missing between the first white section and the next section after you pulled the brown pieces and re-pegged. It does not explain how you keep going and what happens to the big brown loops.

Where can I find a weaving loom like one you use in video for making mats for homeless?

How did you make the balls? How far apart are the pegs? How long is the peg board? How thick is the peg board? Does the diameter of the dow rod matter?

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Parabéns o melhor vidio desta arte que já vi muito bem encinado

Love this idea.

I have a peg loom lot of bags. Thanks for idea the good videos Del

That is so awesome

Thank You it’s great!

Very interesting and fun could also be relaxing.

Is there a way to identify which bags are the fast degrading ones made with cornstarch? It's a lot of work for something that will start disintegrating pretty much immediately.

love the video and info, but can you tell us what size pegs, how far apart spaced and size holes in the pegs please and I think you said 3' wide plank. thank you

Here in CA plastic bags are no longer given out in stores.

How many bags where sacrificed ? How long it took to complete ? Where in your home did it get it's resting place ? I am just kidding no offense, but I would like to know the main questions answered, so I can plan and hopefully I have enough bags already. Thank you , from Moreno Valley California

You need a plarn threader! A wire coat hanger might work. Or a twist tie or even a zip tie. As long as you can form it into a loop and feed that loop through the dowel you can thread the plarn through that loop and pull it through the dowel. Might save you some time, and your pretty manicure. ;)

Great Job ❣❣👍👍

how did you tie the bags together because I never saw it u just had them all done when u started?

WHERE CAN I GET MY HANDS ON THE LOOM & HOW MUCH ARE THEY PLEASE BLESSINGS & BE HOPE FILLED FRANKI

Looks super