Crochet Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats

Chain 2 hdc in next stitch and to end.

Crochet plastic bag sleeping mats.

Repeat step 4 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 plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag. 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.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. 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. 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.

Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. Plarn is the yarn also called plastic yarn that you will use to knit or crochet the plastic mat. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1.

Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting. Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2. 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. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

How to make plarn. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. Wonderful community service project to reuse plastic bags and craft the bags into sleeping mats for homeless and those in need. 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.