Crochet Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

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

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. Hdc half double crochet in 3rd chain from hook and to end. Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. 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.

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. Plarn is the yarn also called plastic yarn that you will use to knit or crochet the plastic mat. 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. Like bev s bag brigade the plarn club meets every day after school to create mats.

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. Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag. Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting.

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. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. How to make plarn. 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.

Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2. Repeat step 4 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.