I did it! And let me tell you – this might not have been the best choice for a sewing project after a nearly thirty year hiatus from sewing. But it’s done, it’s huge, and I love it.
The photos above and below look the same, but they are actually opposite sides. I chose two colors that I thought would look good in F’s room – remember this is her birthday present from us – and I don’t think I realized when I chose two fabrics that each side was made up of fifteen wedges. So alternating wasn’t going to work, at least not without ending up with two like colors together. I chose an AABAABAAB pattern, and reversed it on the back side.
And in a perfect world all of the seams along the side line up just like below, with contrasting perfectly straight topstitching.
Of course, this is not a perfect world, so in a couple of places it’s a bit wonky. But I’m okay with that because this was a tough project and I still managed to pull it off – sewing thirty wedges to batting, topstitching, sewing the circles together, sewing the top and bottom together, adding a zipper, plus tufting the whole thing and handstitching two covered buttons.
At first I thought I’d use a contrasting fabric and bring in a little gold, but found it was too distracting. I ended up with one gray and one aqua button, and love the end results.
I brought home a giant box from work to hide it in, and plan to wrap it in this great rainbow paper I found at The Container Store. It took some serious stuffing to get this thing to fit in the box, but it’s in and hidden until next month. Someone’s going to flip.
Looks great!! Congrats on a job well done!
Would love to see a picture once you get that bad boy wrapped – that paper looks amazing!
The paper actually has little gold squares. It’s really cool.
I hope the pouf doesn’t bust out of the box before July. It’s jammed in there!
I made this pouf in April at the Fabric Nosherie! It definitely felt like more of an intermediate-level project (I would consider myself an advanced-beginner) and I, took, had some triangles with seams that did not match up. But with cute fabric, no one really pays attention to the seams, right? Your pouf looks great.
I agree. Although my fabric was sort of neutral so I was a little nervous, especially with the aqua top stitching. Maybe we’ll end up in the same class some day!
You are too good! Just wondering if my pouf would look as good as my shell. 🙂
You’re shell rocks and you know it!