I bet that many of you have projects that you plan to make or finish ‘one day’, when you have time.  That day finally arrived for me.  Fairly early in the stay-at-home I decided it was time to complete some of those projects that had been on my mental list for a long, long time.

The first one to show you is the free Closet Case Patterns scrap-busting pouf. I saw plenty of these pop up on Instagram on the same weekend as mine was made, so it was clearly in many people’s minds!

This one was sewn from denim leftovers that were in my stash. I was pretty pleased with the range of colours that I had in there! I tend to hold on to small pieces of denim, as they come in handy for all sorts of things. This pouf didn’t use up much at all, surprisingly! I also used a heavyweight stash zip, which probably wasn’t the prescribed length but I made it work just fine.

The pouf is designed to hold your fabric scraps. I have to admit that I tend to either keep larger scraps to use in other projects, and send the smaller scraps to landfill as I go. This meant that I didn’t have any scraps on hand to fill the pouf with – but I certainly had plenty of unused squishy objects in the linen cupboard! It was surprising how much could be jammed into the pouf.

Since this photo was taken I found a few more things to squish in, but the pouf is a bit weirdly shaped with it’s current stuffing. I didn’t add the piping that the pattern suggests, but that would have given it more structure. I quite like the way that the side panels curve into the top panels. I paid a fair bit of attention to getting the seams to line up properly, and even that bulky centre point is adequate.

The pouf has turned out to be handy both for feet and as a seat when doing jigsaw puzzles on the coffee table.

I am now considering making another one that I will actually keep in the sewing room and gradually fill with my sewing scraps.