Crochet Mats From Plastic Milk Bags
Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.
Crochet mats from plastic milk bags. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough. Plastic bags are one of the worst offenders of the wasteful products that are polluting the earth s oceans and occupying the limited space of landfills. I made several of these mats for a non profit organization called suitcases for africa.
Crochet over a 4 10 cm end of the new plastic. Preparing the milk bags. Make sure that the milk bags are clean before you use them. When 4 10cm is left on the old plastic pick up the new strand and continue crocheting over the old strand.
It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. Plastic milk bags lots of them or prepared milk bag yarn. This is a video of how to make a crochet mat with plastic milk bags. Reduce the width if it works up as a lumpy area.
This secures the ends without knots and having to tuck ends in later. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.