Crochet Plastic Bags Into Sleeping Mats

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle.

Crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats.

Plarn is the yarn also called plastic yarn that you will use to knit or crochet the plastic mat. Turn your plastic bags into sleeping mats. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. They re creating sleeping mats for homeless people out of recycled plastic bags.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. We will go through the steps below to make plarn and then the knitting and crocheting will begin. Crochet with plarn sleeping mats for the homeless.

Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. 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. Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting.

Cast on 72 stitches. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases 2. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together.

A great use for plastic shopping 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. This can then be cut into four strips that become loops when opened up. After you have lots of loops hook them together with a basic larks head knot.

Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag. This can then be cut into four strips. How to make plarn. Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting. Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. After you have lots of loops hook them together with a basic larks head knot.

These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.