Sleepibg Mats Out Of Plastic Bags

The bag ladies as they call themselves also specialize in making large tote bags out of the plastic.

Sleepibg mats out of plastic bags. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. It takes about 700 bags and four hours to make one mat for an adult person klemmer said. Gather the plastic bags. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. The video has breathing from my young son that was holding the camera for the first time. Flatten out bags tucking in pleats 2 carefully stack 6 bags use clothes pins to keep them aligned until ready to cut. Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn.

Regardless of who uses it it s a great way to recycle. 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. Thank you all for being such kind human beings. Using a quilting ruler or other straight edge that is wider than the bags first trim the bottom seam off the bags then cut strips approximately 1 2 inch 1 cm wide across the width of the stacked bags forming loops.

The mats are insulating waterproof and the plastic material is unfriendly to insects klemmer said. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain. This is a great way to involve your local church group knitting or crochet group youth group or scout organization with collecting and sorting the bags. In particular plarn can be used as sleeping mats for people.