Bag Mat Ministry

Using p or 10 mm crochet hook loosely chain 37 or chain 36 and use beginning loop as first chain.

Bag mat ministry.

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. Cutting the bags into loops is one less step for the weavers crochetters to do. Instead of processing 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. It takes between 500 600 bags to make one mat. It takes about 50 hours using about 500 plastic bags to crochet a soft sleeping mat that can roll up with. Chain 1 turn and repeat until bed is approximately 5 feet long.

Lutheran church charities 3020 milwaukee ave. Join the bag mat ministry and learn to make sleeping mats for the homeless from recycled plastic shopping bags. Single crochet across 36 sc. Pattern for plastic bag mat.

Then she finally saw one in her car. 97 likes 3 were here. Please contact liz robinson at 513 939 3366 for more information. Patrick catholic church in momence.

More than 500 mats have been made and distributed over the past 4 years. Before a bag can be woven or crocheted into a sleeping mat the bottom seam and the handles must first be cut off. Now they re putting those skills to use to stitch a better future for their community. By sandy wood from chicago to ghana and in between a ministry carrying christ s love and a cushioned place to sleep is spreading to homeless people through lutheran congregations and beyond.

97 likes 3 were here. Northbrook il 60062 local. 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.