Sleep Mats From Plastic Bags

Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn.

Sleep mats from plastic bags. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time.

Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. 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. Opting to use green canvas bags for your grocery shopping is an effective option but many people still have excess plastic bags lying about the place. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.

How to make plarn. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Sleeping mats for the homeless are croqueted out of plastic bags during a mat making workshop held at southern oaks baptist church in tyler on wednesday jan.

Maria mendez young and other american legion auxiliary members in california are part of an initiative to create and provide these sleeping mats to. Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people.

She created the small grassroots organization she called bags to beds from 2017 the group has turned almost 100 plastic grocery bags into mats for the homeless in salt lake city. Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag. Crocheting is something that could be done easily at home watching tv. By collecting plastic bags and crocheting them in to sleeping mats you can give a homeless veteran a soft place to lay his or her head and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Cast on 72 stitches. Mclean was a college student at that point who had learned to crochet from her mother.