Crochet Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2.

Crochet plastic bag sleeping mats.

Wonderful community service project to reuse plastic bags and craft the bags into sleeping mats for homeless and those in need. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

How to make plarn. Repeat step 4 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. 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. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. Chain 2 hdc in next stitch and to end. How these women crochet sleeping mats for homeless people out of plastic bags why we wrote this usually plastic bags are solely utilitarian and more and more they re maligned. Nancy mozeleski second from left and volunteers from the village at orchard ridge in winchester va hold sleeping mats they crocheted from disposable plastic bags.

Like bev s bag brigade the plarn club meets every day after school to create mats. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting. Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag.

Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. Hdc half double crochet in 3rd chain from hook and to end. You take recycled plastic grocery bags or just any plastic bags and you cut them into strips and you tie those strips together and that makes this thing called plarn plastic bag yarn president and club founder shelby tillema. Straighten out each bag by pulling at the end and the handles so that it becomes as nice smooth and flat as the plastic bag in the picture.