Gather the plastic bags.
Omas collecting plastic bags for homeless rugs.
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If no shelter is available homeless bedding consists of cardboard or whatever materials can be found.
These are easily ruined by inclement weather.
However before patti can even start to crochet the bags have to.
Members of the blue water rug hooking guild are weaving plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the.
For the past two years linda has been working with her friend patti barnett fondly known as the mat lady to help turn these plastic bags into sleeping mats to hand out to the 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.
A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags.
Mar 23 2019 explore yrussell1 s board crochet plastic bags into mats for homeless on pinterest.
Woman collecting plastic grocery bags to transform into sleeping mats for homeless.
If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.
This is a great way to involve your local church group knitting or crochet group youth group or scout organization with collecting and sorting the bags.
To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.
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.
John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.
Bed mats made of plastic bags help bedding last longer and stay dry.
But one group in town is collecting the bags to help people who need a better way to sleep.
Aug 27 2015 try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough.
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Volunteers are busy collecting cutting and crocheting plastic grocery bags to turn into sleeping mats for the homeless.
A growing number of church groups and students are turning single use plastic bags into bed mats for the homeless.