A swimming instructor in Hegewisch is turning plastic bags into yarn and crocheting them into plastic mats to donate to Chicago homeless, providing them with insulated sleeping materials.

Sister Kathy Roberg demonstrates how to crochet the recycled plastic bags to form a sleeping mat at her home in Spokane on March 25, 2021. A finished mat is rolled up on the floor.

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She has made 128 mats entirely out of plastic bags. Mooney lives at Brookdale Senior Living in Franklin. "I wish I had more colors," she said while crocheting in her living room.