Community action of southern kentucky s rsvp shows you how to make sleeping mats for the homeless from recycled plastic bags.
Making plarn mats for the homeless.
You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.
Every now and then i see the same news articles coming around again.
Crochet mat video tutorial in this free crochet video humanitarian and environmentally concerned dawn warmbold from arkansas shares her ideas to help the homeless and her pattern for making plastic crochet.
Plarn is simply yarn made from plastic bags and it s been around for a long time although it keeps being re discovered by the mainstream media apparently.
One way is to make plarn mats for the homeless so that the freezing cold of the street earth is less penetrating when they attempt to sleep out in the open.
Some group is making plarn sleeping mats for the homeless.
We have been making sleeping mats fro the homeless for 3 years.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher.
Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.
We need more crocheters or knitters.
If you make more rings you ll get a longer but thinner plarn which takes longer to crochet and creates a mat which is not as cushiony.