Ky Grocery Bag Lady Who Makes Mats For The Homeless

Sarah stolberg the creator of bed of bags is repurposing plastic bags into sleeping mats.

Ky grocery bag lady who makes mats for the homeless.

The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months prior. I m still making the mats because there is still lots of homeless who needs the mats to sleep on. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Volunteers say crocheting with plastic is not easy. It takes up to 50 hours to make one mat and each one uses over 1 000 plastic bags.

1 10 outhouse came up with the idea of crocheting bags together when she was scrolling through. The ladies say it takes between 600 and 700 bags to make one mat. Then they crochet a large sleeping mat for the homeless. The community donated lots of plastic bags at the lake farm centre.

It s not something that you have to devote a long time to you can do a little bit a few hours couple times a semester explained aleatha leader a regular volunteer for bags to beds. The homeless were very excited when they received the mats and the pillows. The mats are distributed to people who are homeless in the metro area. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.

The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. A single mat will cost you 700 grocery bags and countless hours of work. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. The bridge of west tennessee is a phase ii transitional home for women and women with children. Crocheting is something that could be done easily at home watching tv. We also make pillows out of the handles and the other plastics that i can t use for the sleeping mats.

Each mat takes about 50 hours to make. This rothesay woman crochets plastic bags together to make sleeping mats for people who are homeless.