Crochet Plastic Bags Into Sleeping Mats

This can then be cut into four strips.

Crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats.

After you have lots of loops hook them together with a basic larks head knot. Make plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. They re creating sleeping mats for homeless people out of recycled plastic bags. We will go through the steps below to make plarn and then the knitting and crocheting will begin.

Plarn sleeping mat ravelry diy plarn mats for the homeless. This can then be cut into four strips that become loops when opened up. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. 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. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. How to make plarn. Cast on 72 stitches.

Turn your plastic bags into sleeping mats. Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

A great use for plastic shopping bags. Plarn is the yarn also called plastic yarn that you will use to knit or crochet the plastic mat. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. 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.

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. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. After the plarn is made students with crocheting experience weave them into sleeping mats. 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.

After you have lots of loops hook them together with a basic larks head knot. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. Crochet with plarn sleeping mats for the homeless.

Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases 2.