Merry mat makers
By Suzanne Werre
Editor
Turtle Lake-Mercer’s Karin Anderson knows a good thing when she sees it – and the full-size sleeping mats she and her merry band of cohorts work on each week at Trinity Lutheran Church are definitely good things.
The mats are about six feet long and about three feet wide – big enough for most people to fit comfortably when they’re lying down.
The group of mat weavers, men and women from the Turtle Lake area, is currently working on its 26th mat, which will be donated to a homeless shelter in Bismarck. Each mat is made on a large wooden loom using 2000 grocery bags that have been trimmed of their handles, cut into strips, intertwined in long pieces, and rolled into balls so they can easily be woven on the looms.
It’s not hard work, said Anderson. And it is unbelievably rewarding.
“I got blessed with it,” said Karin, when talking about the mat-making project.
