As for rounding up enough plastic grocery bags to make the mats? Rest assured that collecting them has proven to be the easiest part of the whole operation. "Every day we have people drop by with ...

Sleep swirls in, less as an opportunity for peaceful rest and optimistic ... learn to crochet herself. The mat-making technique requires cutting around a plastic bag to create a series of circle ...

Vending machine brings life-saving help to the streets The project ‘Mats for our Neighbors’ takes plastic bags and weaves ...

Clever crocheting turns plastic bags into floor mats. Clever crocheting turns plastic bags into floor mats, as created by volunteers at Bethesda Lutheran Evangelical Church in Carlton, MN.

GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) - The Gatesville Mad Matters have made and donated around 200 mats in the last year ... looked around her house at all the plastic bags she had and wanted to find a ...

She’s not silly or scatterbrained. Horn is the dedicated organizer of a group of women who knit sleeping mats from plastic bags for the homeless. The members of the Knitwits group meet weekly to ...

Ever since her son's death, Tyner has been crocheting sleeping mats made out of plastic shopping bags. It takes 600 bags to make one six-foot mat. "I pray over the mat as I am working on it that the ...

A group of teenagers have a new purpose for the plastic bags so many of us bring home from the store. The organization Teens Give Back SATX is making used grocery bags into sleeping mats for San ...