Bag Mat Ministry

Lutheran church charities 3020 milwaukee ave.

Bag mat ministry.

More than 500 mats have been made and distributed over the past 4 years. Join the bag mat ministry and learn to make sleeping mats for the homeless from recycled plastic shopping bags. Each sleeping mat is approximately 3 feet by 6 feet contains between 500 and 700 plastic bags and takes approximately 35 hours to make. Turn single crochet in 2nd chain from hook.

In the past covenant community church in fairfield oh has offered a free class to learn how to make these mats out of plastic grocery bags. It takes about 50 hours using about 500 plastic bags to crochet a soft sleeping mat that can roll up with. 97 likes 3 were here. Chain 1 turn and repeat until bed is approximately 5 feet long.

Northbrook il 60062 local. 97 likes 3 were here. This step allow them to use their time to make mats. Cutting the bags into loops is one less step for the weavers crochetters to do.

Then she finally saw one in her car. Should measure 2 3 feet. Pattern for plastic bag mat. It takes between 500 600 bags to make one mat.

Instead of processing bags. For two years she listened to her sister joanne hermann talk about the bag mat ministry she and others were doing at st. The next workshop is saturday april 11th from 9am to 2pm at grace presbyterian church 518 roselawn blvd lafayette. Now they re putting those skills to use to stitch a better future for their community.

Patrick catholic church in momence. Using p or 10 mm crochet hook loosely chain 37 or chain 36 and use beginning loop as first chain. Before a bag can be woven or crocheted into a sleeping mat the bottom seam and the handles must first be cut off.