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.

Crochet plastic bag sleeping mats.

How to make plarn. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. 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. 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.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Plarn is the yarn also called plastic yarn that you will use to knit or crochet the plastic mat.

Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Like bev s bag brigade the plarn club meets every day after school to create mats. Repeat step 4 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. 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. 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. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag. Chain 2 hdc in next stitch and to end. 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.