Crochet Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time.

Crochet plastic bag sleeping mats.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2. 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. Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. 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. Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. 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.

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. Hdc half double crochet in 3rd chain from hook and to end. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

How to make plarn. Chain 2 hdc in next stitch 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. Repeat step 4 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Wonderful community service project to reuse plastic bags and craft the bags into sleeping mats for homeless and those in need. Like bev s bag brigade the plarn club meets every day after school to create mats. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. Plarn is the yarn also called plastic yarn that you will use to knit or crochet the plastic mat.