Lots of my projects have leftovers. Bits that are smaller or larger and might be of some use at some point in time, but not right now. As I don’t particularly like throwing things away, I decided to follow the example of a recent YouTube video by Enchanted Rose Costumes to create a scrap pouf. Her version was based on the free Closet Core Pouf pattern, with some modifications. My version also has some modifications from the original pattern and I basically only used the pattern to verify the height of the pouf.
When looking through the hoard for suitable fabrics, I found this 20 cm long, 140 cm wide piece of Tropical Mannequin leftover that I really loved. That needed to be the top of my pouf. For the bottom, I found a scrap of the mock up corset fabric that was dark green and sturdy and therefore seemed to fit. Neither of these were large enough to make a pouf, so I set out to find a third fabric. I settled on some white curtain stuff with a vague pattern on it, that I’d tried to make a corset out of but failed miserably.
The white and tropical fabric were interfaced in fusible cotton, the green was fine by itself. Since the tropical fabric was not very long, I figured out the largest possible circle I could make out of it by attaching three strips together. The end result was 48 cm in diameter. Next, I cut out two half circles (one with some overlap) of the dark green fabric for the bottom and put in a continuous zip with a leafy zip pull. For the sides, the circumference was divided by 12 for each panel, and 10 sections were cut from the white, while two were pieced from the tropical fabric. Then the outside was sewn together and the pouf body was finished.
The scraps came from three different locations; the bag of scraps I’ve kept on top of a cupboard, the bin in my sewing room and the ‘in use’ box in the living room. All in all, I collected 7 kg of scraps and started stuffing. The good thing about having a zipper is that you can put some power behind it and compress more scraps inside compared to an open bin. There is even some space left, so I have ‘room to grow’! For a project that only took a day (and some years to gather the insides), it looks pretty good. I’m not yet entirely sure where it will live, but I’ll find a place.
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