Making Mats Out Of Grocery Bags

A lot of care and a lot of love are going into these one of the mat makers vickie clingan told kcci news.

Making mats out of grocery bags.

Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn. There are dozens of people in the davidson county living outside in the woods under bridges and in abandoned buildings. When the strip you are weaving with runs out begin a. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the.

We care about the people who we re making these for. About press copyright contact us creators advertise developers terms privacy policy safety how youtube works test new features press copyright contact us creators. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique. We can t change their situations but we can do something to make it a tiny bit better.

Learn how to turn plastic bags into sleep mats for homeless. Some stores allow you to return these grocery bags for recycling. 200 plastic grocery bags estimation may be slightly more or less duct tape use a fun color scissors. 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.

Cut out two rectangles from nylon fabric that measure 18 inches wide by 24 inches long. Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough. Mats that matter is collecting plastic grocery bags and waving them into warm sleeping mats to be distributed to the area s homeless.