“You take recycled plastic grocery bags or just any plastic bags and you cut them ... who is also the club’s founder and president. The plarn is then crocheted into sleeping mats for the homeless. “It ...

The students are taking old grocery bags and cutting them into long strips called “plarn” which literally means plastic and yarn. They then crochet them into 6-foot by 4-foot sleeping mats for ...

hold sleeping mats they crocheted ... bags. The rainbow of supple plastic is transformed by Nancy and about 40 of her neighbors at the Village at Orchard Ridge in Winchester, Va., into “plarn ...

Whether they're braided, knitted, crocheted, or woven, grocery bag plarn can become a sturdy rug. If you have a loom, ...

Mercer spends her days turning plastic yarn — or plarn — into crocheted reusable shopping bags. She flattens out plastic shopping bags, then cuts them into strips of plastic yarn that she ...