She found a way to do it with hundreds of plastic bags, crocheting them together to make a mat. It not only brings comfort to those in need but also has added benefits.

"I was able to cut and loop the 600 bags and crochet them in about 22.5 hours," said Merri Medley of The Mats Project. "That was the fastest I could do it." ...

ABILENE, Texas — A group of women in Abilene is donating their time and their hands, crocheting mats for our homeless neighbors. 700 grocery bags makes one 3x6 foot crocheted mat, created using ...

A group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into something helpful and beautiful. They're folding, cutting and weaving mats by ...

To make one mat the students will need to crochet together 1,000 bags, starting with folding the bags into circular bands and linking them together.

The Duvall Bag Ladies take old grocery and other plastic bags and crochet them into sleeping mats. Author: Su Ring Published: 1:10 PM PDT March 15, 2017 Updated: 1:15 PM PDT March 17, 2017 ...

Women belonging to the group at St. John Lutheran Church say they started making the mats more than a year ago. They asked the church to donate plastic bags to help supply their project, and say ...

The seniors’ goal is to make 65 mats, which requires about 35,000 bags. If you would like to donate plastic bags, you can drop them off at Tower One/Tower East’s front desk.

You don't have to go out a buy a new bath mat if yours is looking worse for wear. Simply take some unused plastic bags and turn them into a mat with this DIY.

A passion project that started nearly two-years-ago has helped more than 15 people. Rita says it takes approximately 700 plastic bags to make one sing-sitch mat.

Pat Harris, left, Habiba Awan and Roz Couch cut plastic bags into pieces that will be used to make “plarn” — a portmanteau of plastic and yarn, to be crocheted into multi-use mats. A completed ...

This week's 4-Star-Chicagoan, New Life for Old Bags (NLOB), is an organization that uses plastic bags to create sleeping mats for the homeless. Board President Chrissy Batorski stopped by Windy ...