Polk Group Makes Mats For Homeless

They are turning plastic bags into mats for the homeless for extra padding and a moisture barrier.

Polk group makes mats for homeless. Volunteer polk has come up with a new idea to keep the homeless warm this season and theyre asking for your helping hands. The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground. It takes about 50 hours. Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. It is not a quick process. The first mats are probably going to be ready by december. But one group in town is collecting the bags to help people who need a better way to sleep.

Volunteer polk has come up with a new idea to keep the homeless warm this season and they re asking for your helping hands. The mighty mat makers has found a use for their crocheting skills. They will be given to talbot house and other agencies that help the homeless. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Crocheting plastic bag together to make a heavy water proof mat is. This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting.

It keeps them dry. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. The mat is made of plastic and is about a 1 2 inch thick. Wfla from bags to blankets a group called volunteer polk is taking plastic grocery bags that usually can t be recycled and upcycling them into mats for the homeless.

Members of the blue water rug hooking guild are weaving plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the. If you want to donate plastic bags or your time call volunteer polk at 863 534 5580. You need 700 bags to make just one mat.