Crochet Plastic Bags Into Sleeping Mats

Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle.

Crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting. Turn your plastic bags into sleeping mats. How to make plarn.

Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag. A great use for plastic shopping bags. Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. 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.

We will go through the steps below to make plarn and then the knitting and crocheting will begin. Crochet with plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. This can then be cut into four strips that become loops when opened up.

Make plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. 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.

They re creating sleeping mats for homeless people out of recycled plastic bags. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Cast on 72 stitches. Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases 2. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. After you have lots of loops hook them together with a basic larks head knot.

These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together.

After you have lots of loops hook them together with a basic larks head knot. This can then be cut into four strips.