CRESTVIEW — Not all people crochet sweaters or fuzzy socks. Some Northwest Florida residents use plastic bags to make sleeping mats for the homeless. Debbie Barberee organized a group of volunteers to ...

(KUTV) — Alaina Allred's house and car are filled with plastic bags. "I'm a bag lady," she laughed. She has been collecting them for a very special project. "A lot of people just didn't know what to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every week, volunteers at Faith Westwood United Methodist Church in Omaha, Neb., turn thousands of plastic bags into sleeping mats ...

From sorting to piling, to cutting, then tying the strips together, taking plastic bags and turning them into something that can be used is no easy task. "Mostly it's preparation for the process of ...

A group of women from the Hacienda Mobile Home Park are donating sleeping mats that they have crocheted and knit from plastic bags to the Fullerton and Santa Ana armory shelters. For the past year and ...

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ABILENE, Texas — A group of women in Abilene is donating their time and their hands, crocheting mats for our homeless neighbors. 700 grocery bags makes one 3x6 foot crocheted mat, created using ...

MILTON (CBS) - A group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into something helpful and beautiful. They're folding, cutting and weaving ...

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COOS BAY — This isn't your grandmother's crochet circle. There's something different about the material used by the women who gather every Wednesday morning in the lower level of Harmony United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WAUSAU − More than 3,500 plastic shopping bags have been repurposed into sleeping mats for Wausau residents experiencing ...

A group of residents at Covenant Living at Windsor Park, a senior living community in Carol Stream, routinely get together to create waterproof sleeping mats out of recycled plastic shopping bags. The ...