Crochet Plastic Bags Into Sleeping Mats

Cast on 72 stitches.

Crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. A great use for plastic shopping bags. Crochet with plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. After you have lots of loops hook them together with a basic larks head knot. Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag.

Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. After the plarn is made students with crocheting experience weave them into sleeping mats. Make plarn 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.

Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. 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. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. 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. Turn your plastic bags into sleeping mats. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases 2. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. We will go through the steps below to make plarn and then the knitting and crocheting will begin. They re creating sleeping mats for homeless people out of recycled plastic bags.

Plarn sleeping mat ravelry diy plarn mats for the homeless. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

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.