How To Crochet Plastic Bags Into Sleeping Mats

As you prepare some bags join them together in a long chain called plarn and roll those into a ball.

How to crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats.

Start by folding your plastic bag in half vertically. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Cut off the plastic bag handles and the bottom of the bag.

How to make plarn. Now take your strips and roll them together into a ball of plarn or plastic yarn. This can then be cut into four strips that become loops when opened up. Crochet sleeping mats for the homeless with recycled plastic bags by annie kin january 6 2020 january 7 2020 the bag ladies at nanaimo harbour city seniors in nanaimo british columbia canada have been doing some very clever and surprisingly easy crocheting to help the homeless while recycling single use plastic bags.

Come on let s make some mats how to crochet a plastic sleeping mat step 1. The balls should be able to fit through one of your prepared bags. Start with about 10 plastic bags at a time. Cut off the handles and the bottom seam so that you re left with a rectangle.

Using your scissors cut off the top handles and bottom seams to create open ended tubes. 500 700 plastic shopping bags for a person sized mat but can vary depending on what you re using the mat for 10mm or larger crochet hook. From here you cut these into strips. The thicker the strips the thicker your mat.

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. Do this two more times then cut off the top handles and the bottom seam to create a flat open plastic tube. Fold up as many times as needed for the size of the bag to make a small vertical pile. You will need about four to five large plarn balls to load the loom the ball below is only a fourth of the size that you ll need.

The first step is to make the plastic yarn which they call plarn straighten out the bags and fold them up vertically in half.