The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.
Polk group makes mats for homeless.
They will be given to talbot house and other agencies that help the homeless.
It takes about 50 hours.
Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.
Wfla from bags to blankets a group called volunteer polk is taking plastic grocery bags that usually can t be recycled and upcycling them into mats for the homeless.
You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.
They are turning plastic bags into mats for the homeless for extra padding and a moisture barrier.
This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting.
Volunteer polk said it takes about 700 plastic bags to complete.
But one group in town is collecting the bags to help people who need a better way to sleep.
The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground.
You need 700 bags to make just one mat.
Wfla volunteer polk is looking for volunteers and plastic shopping bags to weave into mats for the homeless.
The first mats are probably going to be ready by december.
The mighty mat makers has found a use for their crocheting skills.
Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.
Crocheting plastic bag together to make a heavy water proof mat is.
It is not a quick process.
Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet.
They re creating sleeping mats for homeless people out of recycled plastic bags.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.
It keeps them dry.
Volunteer polk has come up with a new idea to keep the homeless warm this season and they re asking for your helping hands.
Members of the blue water rug hooking guild are weaving plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the.