Blogtober 2022 : Day 26

I’ve not had a problem thinking of things to tell you about this Blogtober but now, with only 5 more days to go, I’m thinking of allll the things that I need to pack into these last few days … although, I will still be posting after Blogtober so perhaps there isn’t as much urgency as I think!

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my recent posts, it’s so nice to know that you are sticking with me and are much more disciplined than me – I fell off the blog-reading wagon last weekend and I really must catch up!

I was back on my list of Horrible Jobs today and back in the shower with the tub of grout.

It wasn’t a complete disaster but let’s just say that there’s a reason why I’m a sock knitter and not a tiler!  Phew, it took me ages although it’s done now and I have to leave it to dry before going back to try to get off all the excess grout that I might have missed.  The sealant and the ceiling paint can wait until another day!

A much more pleasant activity was measuring my crochet pouffe cover on the pouffe.  I think you can quite safely say this is a vintage pouffe …

and I have no idea what it is stuffed with but there’s a very definite odd lump on the top.  This was my mother-in-law’s pouffe and it has supported many pairs of feet over the years.  It had been recovered several times too with slip cases of various fabrics, and by the time the final covering started to fall apart, I decided something had to be done about it.  I thought that a dark crocheted cover might be the thing to give it a new lease of life and with the help of a crochet bag tutorial (I wrote about it here), I made a start.  I’ve only been doing a few rounds here and there but I decided I wanted to try to finish it during Blogtober and today, I felt I was ready to try it on.

I used some extra padding (this insulating fabric came in a Hello Fresh box during lockdown – I always like to hang onto stuff I think might be useful 🙂 ) and there’s a sort of semi-circle cut out to accommodate the lump.

It didn’t quite work to take the section out completely so what I ended up doing was splitting the insulating material (it came apart when I pulled it) and putting one piece of it where you can see in the photo so that section was slightly lower and then I put the second piece next to it and that balanced out the level nicely.

Then it was time to try the cover on!

Wahay!  That’s not bad, is it?  I’m very pleased with that.  I’ve got a couple more rounds to do and then I need to work out how to attach it without having to sew it on – I’m thinking that if I work a round or two of decreases that will sit under the pouffe then that should hold it.

I should probably wash it before I put it on the pouffe permanently too – it’s been all round the house and there are more than a few pet hairs crocheted in there!

Short and sweet again today … I’ll see you tomorrow! 🙂 xx