Not only did we work on crocheting beautiful jewelry or making unique ceramic textile covers, but we also decided to create socially engaged handwork. We have dedicated ourselves to collective work on the production of plastic sleeping mats for people on the move. In order to get the yarn for crocheting, we used clean plastic bags that we cut into strips and joined to make into a ball – so-called plarn (plastic yarn). From that ball, we crocheted long rectangles: sleeping mats. Our idea was that crocheted plastic has several significant advantages for use – it creates air pockets that enable thermal insulation, the plastic is waterproof and extremely easy to wash and disinfect, the pads are easy to carry and free. We made these pads together as a collective – each of us crocheted a part that we then joined into a whole – but also through the collective and anonymous work of many people who joined us either by bringing plastic bags, making yarn, or participating in crochet workshops. This practice embodied the whole range of values and ideas we shared: it is environmentally conscious, and uses plastic bags as a resource that would otherwise end up in rivers and seas; the very practice of collective handwork is an old women’s practice that enabled the exchange of ideas, stories, questions, advice, which helps us focus and calm down; the purpose of the mats was to support people on the move, by directly offering a potentially useful object, but also through the dissemination of information among all those who participated in the mat-making workshops.