Making a new year's resolution on my birthday seems like a good idea! I fancy knitting a pouffe this year (don't you just love that word?! ~ POUFFE ~ )(makes me think of a dragon blowing a feather away...) and have been investigating patterns. This seems like the easiest one so far. I love the mis-translation of the word duvet: "we tried to make a ball of duves before we stuffed it" and "stuff the duves into the stool." Erm, yes, quite. Actually, that's a brilliant idea: buying cheap duvets to use as stuffing for the giant floor cushion (which is probably a better description of what I'm trying to make rather than ......pouffe.......) I had thought to use old pillows but they might end up an odd shape.
Another interesting suggestion is multi-stranding wool to make it thick enough to use 15mm needles, rather than buying Very Fat Wool. 2000g of wool would be required to make a decent sized stool that you can put you feet on, though I'm not confident it would be strong enough to sit on.
I saw a fantastic one at John Lewis but at a rather fantastic price as well. I wish you could buy that industrial strength wool they use.....unless of course, it isn't knitted but manufactured. Mmmm, cheating....
Anyway, check out this Norwegian website (it's very possible that Google mistranslated that "duves".....)
...and here's someone who tried it out:
This blog looks like a good one to follow: http://www.homeecflunkee.com/
Hope you've all had a lovely Christmas! I managed not to knit a stitch....!
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