Plastic Bag Rugs For Homeless

Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

Plastic bag rugs for homeless.

Ruby ellen womacks of rural atlanta is the organizer of this idea. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Powered by create your own unique website with customizable templates. Using the excess bag whip stich across adding extra loops of bags as necessary.

Mekka evano august 24 2020 august 24 2020 no comments on plastic bag rugs for homeless. 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. Weave in excess along the edge. Loop plastic bags together until you have a chain or length of loops approximately 56 bags long.

Plastic bag rugs for homeless. Weaving on a frame loom or the marth steward loom with pegs on only the longest edge. How to make mats for the homeless by joni staples. Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough.

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. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Plastic bag mats to homeless sleeping mats from plastic sacks virginia your old plastic ping bag homeless and keep plastic bags.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. 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. If you know basic crochet stitches these colorful and easily cleaned rugs will work up quickly for the. Hook up your plastic grocery bags into sturdy rugs via an uncomplicated crochet technique.

To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Mar 23 2019 explore yrussell1 s board crochet plastic bags into mats for homeless on pinterest. See more ideas about plastic bag crochet recycled plastic bags plastic bag crafts.

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. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.