From Trash to multi-purpose colorcul mat.
Thank you to @justinparke for this challenge entitled ***"Reduce, Reuse and Recycle"
My mother really inlove with trash. She even go to stores and to the barangay road to collect empty junckfood plastics and food wraps. Our mother also participated several times in the clean up drive activity of our barangay to collect this materials.
So, this is how to do it. First, you have to removed the hard edges of the plastic then wash to make sure it all clean before cutting in same shapes.
[Photo collage using Canva]
After she cut in same rectangular sizes then she fold it. Then separate the same colors then connect it like zigzag.
[Photo collage using Canva]
On the next photo, the different zigzags must be one yard long. Then used thread to connect firmly. Thread to be used is the one used to sow shoes or bags. Here in our place, a lot of sowing shoes are in the street or in the over pass. You can see "Tahi Sapatos" which means shoe repair thru sowing. You can buy at them 1 yard for five pesos. Or you can buy to department store for only eighty five pesos for the small size.
Then after connecting a lot of done yards,this will be the result:
This was done for almost 2 months. Since mother just doing it before bed time or after eating lunch while seating at the back yard.
Multiple use
This can be used as table mat, floor mat if wider, or can be picnic mat. But my mother usually selling it or in barter change system. And mostly, my cousins are the one buying it either giving money or goods. One of mother's work was taken by the Municipal Environment and Natural Resources and displayed in their office and off course they gave token and money to my mother.
Recently during the Foundation day of our Municipality last December 2023, one of her product was used as canvas for the logo of the booth. Criteria of judging are based on the material used and it must be consist of natural or raw materials not commercial or artificials and should have a majority of recycled materials used.
[Photo credit to the rightful owner. She sent me this photo thru messenger]