Crochet Plastic Bag Sleeping Mats
Repeat step 4 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.
Crochet plastic bag sleeping mats. How to make plarn. 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. Like bev s bag brigade the plarn club meets every day after school to create mats.
Hdc half double crochet in 3rd chain from hook and to end. 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. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. 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. Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag.
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. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time.
Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. 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. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Wonderful community service project to reuse plastic bags and craft the bags into sleeping mats for homeless and those in need.