25-11-2018 22:52 via montrealgazette.com

'The bag lady' passes on her knowledge to help the homeless

She’s proud to call herself the bag lady.
Now, Lisa Wadup is hoping there will be a lot more bag people to follow in her footsteps.
Wadup takes plastic bags by the hundreds, cuts them up into what she calls plarn, or plastic yarn, and crochets them into pillows and mattresses she passes on to homeless people.
“It’s been three years since I started, and I probably made 100 of them so far,” Wadup said.
Lisa Wadup turns plastic bags into gold for someone living on the street
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