Plastic Yarn Sleeping Mat

Basic crochet sleep mat recipe recommended supplies.
Plastic yarn sleeping mat. Nancy mozeleski second from left and volunteers from the village at orchard ridge in winchester va hold sleeping mats they crocheted from disposable. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. This long plastic strip is called plarn short for plastic yarn. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.
Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Old plastic shopping bags get new life. About 15 women participated recently in a workshop to create sleeping mats for the homeless.
The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain. Crochet a 24 61 cm chain plus 2. It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat. However these mats were not made of yarn straw or bamboo.
Note how the decision to cut each bag into 4 rings is just right. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. The mats are made from plarn or plastic yarn which is made from plastic shopping bags. 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.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.