I love poufs, they are an easy way to add more seats in your lounge and nice to look at too. Last year I made this pouf with a pattern I found on the BHG website;I used some old curtains and they began to fray at the sides and had to make it again this time with a stronger fabric. Here are the before and after pictures:
Leo, bought a second hand dining table for 100 I think and the seats needed to be reupholstered. So we bought a zebra print, the zebra is my husband’s family totem. In our culture every family has a totem and most are animals or part of an animal, my family where I was born our totem is the heart. So anyone with the same totem as you is your relative even not by blood.My husband loves his totem and we have so many things that are zebra inspired and I think we have to stop now because its becoming a little eccentric! I digress, so we had some left over fabric that I did not want to throw away and yesterday decided to make a pouf but the material was not enough to make the same size as above. Needless to say I have seen Leo so excited about anything I have ever made before than this.
Here is how you make it:
Materials
- 1 yard home decorators weight fabric
- 1/2 yard leatherette or leather
- Sewing thread
- Scissors
- Pins
- Stuffing material or old towels
- Cut three rectangles of home decorators fabric measuring 18in x 15in
- Cut two equilateral triangles of leatherette or leather with the sides measuring 18in
- Stitch the shorter sides of the rectangle wrong sides facing to form a triangle
- Pin and stitch the triangular side to close one end.
- Pin and stitch the triangular side and leave an opening to stuff the pouf.
- Stuff the pouf and use slip stitch to close the opening and you are done.