Plastic Bag Rugs For Homeless

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.

Plastic bag rugs for homeless. The purpose of this group is to use the plastic bag strips to crochet into 30 inch by 70 inch roughly 2 5 feet by 6 feet sleeping mats for the homeless. Mar 23 2019 explore yrussell1 s board crochet plastic bags into mats for homeless on pinterest. Mekka evano august 24 2020 august 24 2020 no comments on plastic bag rugs for homeless. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come.

Weave in excess along the edge. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. Ruby ellen womacks of rural atlanta is the organizer of this idea. Weaving on a frame loom or the marth steward loom with pegs on only the longest edge.

Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Using the excess bag whip stich across adding extra loops of bags as necessary. Loop plastic bags together until you have a chain or length of loops approximately 56 bags long. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.

While the blue or yellow bags can be mostly sorted together the white bags tend to have accent colors that can come out in the finished rug. Powered by create your own unique website with customizable templates. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the.

Plastic bag mats to homeless sleeping mats from plastic sacks virginia your old plastic ping bag homeless and keep plastic bags. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

Plastic bag rugs for homeless. Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough. See more ideas about plastic bag crochet recycled plastic bags plastic bag crafts. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. How to make mats for the homeless by joni staples.