CRESTVIEW — Not all people crochet sweaters or fuzzy socks. Some Northwest Florida residents use plastic bags to make sleeping mats for the homeless. Debbie Barberee organized a group of ...

Volunteers from Salt Lake City charity organization Bags to Beds take thousands of used plastic grocery bags and crochet them into mats for people experiencing homelessness to sleep on.

MARYSVILLE - Inmates at Ohio's prison for women are making sleeping mats for homeless people using an all-too-familiar artifact of the modern world: plastic grocery bags.

Plastic bags are gathered from grocery or shopping stores, cut into strips that are tied together and rolled into balls and then crocheted into sleeping mats for the homeless. Each mat takes about ...

In their spare time after working, more than 40 Snake River Correctional Institution inmates are hauling bags of plastic strips and crocheting mats for the homeless.

A group of Kitimat women — who call themselves 'bag ladies' — have been crocheting unwanted plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

Pay it Forward: Crocheters turn plastic bags into sleeping mats for homeless (Photo: KUTV) While learning about different crochet techniques, she discovered you can cut up the bags and turn them ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Crocheting is all the rage. Grandmothers and college students - and everybody in between - are crocheting these days. But have you ever seen someone crochet a plastic bag into a mat?

The crocheted mats are durable, lightweight and waterproof, and they provide some comfort. Houck Kampa had just finished writing a paper for school on plastic bags and how bad they are for the ...

How ‘Happy Hookers’ help Dallas’ homeless and refugees: Senior group crochets mats from plastic bags Crafty CC Young Senior Living volunteers find an environmentally friendly way to pitch in.

Phyllis Shows (left), of Journey to the Streets Ministry, and Kathy Van Vlleet (right) crochet plastic bags into mats for the homeless as part the ministry located at the Empowerment House in ...