Crochet Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag.

Crochet plastic bag sleeping mats.

Chain 2 hdc in next stitch and to end. Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2. Repeat step 4 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. 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.

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. 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. 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.

Hdc half double crochet in 3rd chain from hook and to end. Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. 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.

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. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. 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.