Picture this: You, your favorite yarn, and a hook in hand – the perfect recipe for a bag-making adventure. You will love ...

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gather around a table to chat, snack on baked goods, and crochet ... only] when they ban plastic bags,” says O’Brien with defiance. You've read of free articles. Subscribe to continue.

It begins with regular plastic bags, which are then transformed into balls of plastic yarn, which Duck calls "plarn." That is then crocheted into mats. They look complicated to make, but Duck says ...

With files from the CBC's Daybreak North and George Baker. To hear the full story listen to the audio labelled: A group of Kitimat women crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for homeless.

What’s better than reusing while helping others? Turning plastic bags into crocheted-mats for the homeless became one of Operation Green Team’s mission. “It’s a huge improvement of laying ...

And, plastic bags—the real catch she ... she is now able to stray from patterns and essentially free-form crochet sculptures to her liking. In her art making, Jorgensen draws on her professional ...