Crochet Plastic Bags Into Sleeping Mats

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.

Crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats.

This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting. Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. After you have lots of loops hook them together with a basic larks head knot.

This can then be cut into four strips. Plarn sleeping mat ravelry diy plarn mats for the homeless. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases 2. We will go through the steps below to make plarn and then the knitting and crocheting will begin.

Make plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. 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. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. 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. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

After the plarn is made students with crocheting experience weave them into sleeping mats. Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. A great use for plastic shopping bags.

Cast on 72 stitches. Crochet with plarn 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.

Turn your plastic bags into sleeping mats. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. How to make plarn.

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. Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.