LOOKING for a chance to learn a new craft while helping those less fortunate than you?

Today, a Haverfordwest shop is hosting a workshop on how to turn your old plastic bags into ground mats which could be used by the homeless.

The workshop at Guymers’ Café will be led by Sally Bearne, who will demonstrate how to create yarn from plastic carrier bags that can then by knitted or crocheted into mats, tote bags, and other durable items.

This plastic yarn, or plarn, as it is known, is made by cutting up plastic carrier bags into strips and looping these strips together to create a sturdy woven material.

For more information visit the Homeless Pembrokeshire Facebook page.

Making plastic yarn involves squeezing and rolling shopping bags into small pieces, and creating one floor mat could use more than 100 old shopping bags because of this.

The Create Plastic Matting for the Homeless workshop takes place at Guymers Café at 2pm today (Thursday, February 15).