Crochet Plastic Bags Into Sleeping Mats

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

Crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. This can then be cut into four strips that become loops when opened up. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. 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. Turn your plastic bags into sleeping mats. We will go through the steps below to make plarn and then the knitting and crocheting will begin.

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. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting. Cast on 72 stitches. 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. How to make plarn.

After the plarn is made students with crocheting experience weave them into sleeping mats. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Crochet with plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. They re creating sleeping mats for homeless people out of recycled plastic bags.

Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. Plarn is the yarn also called plastic yarn that you will use to knit or crochet the plastic mat. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. This can then be cut into four strips.

Plarn sleeping mat ravelry diy plarn mats for the homeless. Make plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. After you have lots of loops hook them together with a basic larks head knot. This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting.

A great use for plastic shopping bags. 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.