Mats For Homeless Knitting

Jul 22 2015 explore mary long s board mats for the homeless on pinterest.

Mats for homeless knitting.

For knitting the mat you can knit a swatch to calculate the gauge and then calculate the number of stitches to size desired. Knit the mat using size 19 knitting needles. Homelessness poverty in the news. Cast off and you re done.

How to make mats for the homeless by joni staples. How to yarn resources in nh social resources in nh books. Local groups are knitting mats collecting supplies for the homeless kevin griffin jan 12 2020 jan 12 2020 updated jan. A rolled mat with a carrying strap makes the mat much more user friendly for those carrying them.

Homelessness contact us 2015 2016 2017. 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. Hfth in the news. 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.

The advantages the plarn mats provide to a homeless person are critical she said. Volunteers crochet sleeping mats from plastic bags may 30 to give to the homeless during a knit happens meeting at parkway church in victoria. Keep knitting until it reaches 6 feet long. 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.

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. Knit approximately 50 stitches until it reaches about 2 feet wide. For example the mats thicken the barrier separating the ground from a blanket or a sleeping bag with a person.