Mats For Homeless Knitting

Years later i applied her method to create a crocheted lunch bag for the book awareknits knit purl save the world in the uk which i co wrote with adrienne armstrong.

Mats for homeless knitting.

Sleeping mats for the homeless are made totally out of recycled plastic grocery bags making them light weight and waterproof. More recently however a childhood friend told me about how her mom s church group was using plarn to crochet sleep mats for the homeless. For knitting the mat you can knit a swatch to calculate the gauge and then calculate the number of stitches to size desired. See more ideas about plastic bag crochet blessing bags homeless.

Jul 22 2015 explore mary long s board mats for the homeless on pinterest. Volunteers crochet sleeping mats from plastic bags may 30 to give to the homeless during a knit happens meeting at parkway church in victoria. The advantages the plarn mats provide to a homeless person are critical she said. How to yarn resources in nh social resources in nh books.

Knit approximately 50 stitches until it reaches about 2 feet wide. Homelessness poverty in the news. Keep knitting until it reaches 6 feet long. Plarn is slightly different so i suggest a swatch to get a feel for the size of needles which works well with plarn and if one knits loosely or tightly.

For example the mats thicken the barrier separating the ground from a blanket or a sleeping bag with a person. Homelessness contact us 2015 2016 2017. If you knit or crochet that is great and if not it s easy to learn by looking at the directions below or contacting wose for assistance. We quickly learned that while many of our mats go to shelters which serve those who are homeless many are also distributed directly to homeless individuals living on the streets.

Hfth in the news. Local groups are knitting mats collecting supplies for the homeless kevin griffin jan 12 2020 jan 12 2020 updated jan. Knit the mat using size 19 knitting needles.