They take thousands of used plastic grocery bags and crochet them into mats for people experiencing homelessness to sleep on. Since 2017, the group, with help from community volunteers ...

Some Northwest Florida residents use plastic bags to make sleeping ... where she met a group crocheting shopping bags into mats. She decided to bring the practice to DeFuniak Springs.

Crocheting the mats ... inmates cut the bags into strips, link those strips into circles, then roll them into a yarn-like ball, or “parn” as the plastic balls are dubbed.

For the past year and a half, these self proclaimed “bag ladies” have been collecting used plastic bags ... to one of the ladies to crochet or knit into a sleeping mat.

MILTON (CBS) - A group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into ... can crochet, and asked 'Can we do this?'" A single mat ...

Clever crocheting turns plastic bags into floor mats. Clever crocheting turns plastic bags into floor mats, as created by volunteers at Bethesda Lutheran Evangelical Church in Carlton, MN.

SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP — A few years ago, Pauline Goulet discovered a group of Heartland Hospice volunteers who were crocheting plastic bags into mats for the homeless. She thought it was such ...

NEWHALL - Mae Kaestner says it amazes her how fast plastic bags accumulate ... Kaestner and friend Betty Moeller then work to crochet the plarn into mats. 'We have about three couples at our ...

Each mat takes approximately 600 plastic bags to make and the entire process ... looped into plastic yarn— also known as plarn— and crocheted into the finished product. "I was able to cut ...

She found a way to do it with hundreds of plastic bags, crocheting them together to make a mat. It not only brings ... others want to crochet their way into helping others.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A group of Newhall church members is using plastic bags to crochet sleeping ... them and wrap them up into balls of plastic yarn to make the mats.

700 grocery bags makes one 3x6 foot crocheted mat, created using plastic bags for the greater ... and then roll into balls," said Hardwick when describing the preparation process.