Volunteers at Good Shepherd Parish in Ubly have crocheted 437 sleeping mats from plastic bags since 2021, helping the ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

But now, more and more knitters are finding a way to help both the environment and the homeless — by using recycled plastic yarn, or plarn ... Committee, grocery-style plastic bags work best ...

As she crocheted with her P-size hook ... said Schmedeman. Thinner bags from grocery stores work best for plarn. Between 500 and 700 plastic bags are used to make one Mercy Mat.

She found a way to do it with hundreds of plastic bags ... want to crochet their way into helping others. “We started taking out the equipment and showing people how to work the plarn, it ...