Crochet Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

Chain 2 hdc in next stitch and to end.

Crochet plastic bag sleeping mats.

Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2. Like bev s bag brigade the plarn club meets every day after school to create mats. 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. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases.

These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. How to make plarn. 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. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

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. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Plarn is the yarn also called plastic yarn that you will use to knit or crochet the plastic mat. Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1.

Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. Wonderful community service project to reuse plastic bags and craft the bags into sleeping mats for homeless and those in need. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Hdc half double crochet in 3rd chain from hook and to end.