Happy New Year! I hope everyone’s winter transition has been smooth.
After the holidays I like to slow down and dive into cozy winter hobbies. It’s the time of year when I paint, drum, do more yoga, and of course crochet by the fire. I still make an effort to get outside when the sun is out, but those excursions feel rare and special, snow all twinkling in the trees. We’ve got some good snow this winter! As I type this New England is bracing for the largest winter storm in four years. By the time it hits your inbox I could be buried. That’s ok, I’ve got a full freezer, firewood, and plenty of yarn.
After crocheting a beach/market bag as a Christmas gift, I still had a lot of leftover cotton macrame rope left on the spool, so I decided to make a pouf. A pouf is a cross between a cushion and an ottoman. It’s for either feet or butts.
Some of my recurring packages come with recycled fabric pulp as an insulator, and I have been saving the bundles to use as stuffing. To make this pouf I single-crocheted in-the-round until I had a big circle larger than a dinner plate, maybe 22 inches wide, I didn’t measure. Then I stopped my increases and went vertical on the sides for about 6 inches.
On the other side I decreased, and about a fifth of the way into the decreasing circle I added the tightly-rolled fabric pulp to the inside so that I could gauge my density and the flatness of the disc. Overall it was an easy, fast, and recycling-friendly project that looks expensive and bohemian.
