Polk Group Makes Mats For Homeless

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Polk group makes mats for homeless.

Crocheting plastic bag together to make a heavy water proof mat is. The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. It keeps them dry.

The mighty mat makers has found a use for their crocheting skills. 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. If you want to donate plastic bags or your time call volunteer polk at 863 534 5580. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

They will be given to talbot house and other agencies that help the homeless. Wfla volunteer polk is looking for volunteers and plastic shopping bags to weave into mats for the homeless. Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet. Volunteer polk has come up with a new idea to keep the homeless warm this season and they re asking for your helping hands.

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. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. But one group in town is collecting the bags to help people who need a better way to sleep.

It takes about 50 hours. It is not a quick process. They re creating sleeping mats for homeless people out of recycled plastic bags. Members of the blue water rug hooking guild are weaving plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the.

You need 700 bags to make just one mat. The first mats are probably going to be ready by december. This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting.