Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.
How to turn plastic bags into sleeping mats.
The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain.
It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat.
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These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.
Like bev s bag brigade the plarn club meets every day after school to create mats.
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Hdc half double crochet in 3rd chain from hook and to end.
Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2.
How to turn plastic bags into a sleeping mat.
Approx 58 plastic bags or 504 yards of plarn size 12 mm crochet hook scissors.
It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.
Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.
Crocheters turn plastic bags into sleeping mats for homeless photo.
Plastic bags are one of the worst offenders of the wasteful products that are polluting the earth s oceans and occupying the limited space of landfills.
Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough.
On the side of the bag under the handle cut from the handle to the bottom end dashed yellow line in picture flip and do the other side.
Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together.
Pull the bag apart to create an oval.
How these pe residents turn plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless you can take any plastic bag and make it into an essential item like sleeping mats for the homeless.
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.
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Chain 2 hdc in next stitch and to end.