Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough.
Crochet mats from plastic milk bags.
Preparing the milk bags.
Plastic bags are one of the worst offenders of the wasteful products that are polluting the earth s oceans and occupying the limited space of landfills.
Reduce the width if it works up as a lumpy area.
Crochet hook between 9 11 mm if you are being provided with prepared milk bag yarn you can skip preparing milk bags and making yarn steps.
Crochet over a 4 10 cm end of the new plastic.
This secures the ends without knots and having to tuck ends in later.
It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.
They bring these mats to africa and.
I made several of these mats for a non profit organization called suitcases for africa.
These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.
When 4 10cm is left on the old plastic pick up the new strand and continue crocheting over the old strand.
Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together.
Plastic milk bags lots of them or prepared milk bag yarn.
This is a video of how to make a crochet mat with plastic milk bags.