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plastic mats for the homeless.
I do love to quilt, and I am getting back into due to a 3 year hiatus. I do have a question and don't really know how to put it on here. I am interested in the plastic mat ministry, making mats for the homeless, this is a more hands-on type thing and not sewing, more cutting & crocheting. my thing is ,is there a way to sew these bags somehow? I guess it would have to be a special machine to do this.
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Are you crocheting the plastic mats out of milk bags that go on the ground? I don’t know how you could do plastic quilts unless you used PUL. PUL is a plastic sewable fabric that can be used to do waterproof diaper pant covers or bib backs but it is expensive.
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The bags would tear along the stitching. The flat grocery bags would also become full of holes after a short time. Turning the grocery bags into plarn makes a sturdy material once it is crocheted. I made several plarn bags and planters. The planters were outside and lasted three years. The bags that I use inside have lasted much longer.
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Here's a PDF that gives instructions on those mats and some videos to show how to make them:
http://storage.cloversites.com/faith...structions.pdf http://www.grandforksherald.com/life...h-mat-ministry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EThR5UjkzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyLFk8O2hnA |
I didn't think about them tearing, and its bags you get from different stores what you carry items out of the store.
I will check those links as wel I have watched the ones on youtube thats what got me interested. and a great way to recycle too. the plants?gosh why didn't I think of that! I got a bunch of plants as well. l can start dloing them too. well ladies thankyou so much for directing me the right way. y'all have a great day |
I belong to a church group that help our homeless here in St Augustine , (4 S -sweaters-socks ,soup and salvation) the plarn(yarn made out of plastic grocery bags) is very durable.When we give a homeless person a mat, they are very glad to get one.It takes between 500-600 bags to make one mat.We only have one person that crochets them for us, but a lot of the congregations donate their bags.
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Plants?????
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Plants???? Don't follow....is this mentioned on one of the videos? and how to they play into the mats?
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I also belong to a church group where we make mats from plastic bags. Ours are donated to the homeless, but also kindergarten children in the poorer school districts. They each get a mat and at the end of the school year they get to keep it.
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Originally Posted by Lady Diana
(Post 8139186)
Plants???? Don't follow....is this mentioned on one of the videos? and how to they play into the mats?
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