Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Pouffe Made with PET Bottles

Surfing the internet I found this wonderful pouffe made OF PET bottles! The pouffe is very simple to make: columns of interlocked PET bottles boud together by clear adhesive tape, covered in a heat insulation material, and then in decorative fabric. See the scheme below.





Bond together 37 PET bottles with transparent sticky tape. 



Cut 2 round pieces of  pasteboard. Stick it to our pouffe.


Cut 2 round pieces of heat insulation material and 1 rectangular piece. You can also use foam rubber or padding polyester.


Join it all with handmade stitches.


Make a cover with old T-shirts.


Knit the side part and crochet the top part of  the pouffe. The bottom is of the fabric.

8 comments:

  1. need a patteren for cover

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  2. you had me until the sewing lol

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  3. What a fantastic idea. Have wanted to get a couple of pouffe's but quite expensive. Don't know about knitting outer cover, would be alright in recycled material. I have an old woollen coat that just might do the trick.

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  4. This is very neat, but I cannot knit. The old tshirts actually look good for a teens room. My mother-in-law has one of these made from old half gallon juice cans that was made probably 40+ years ago. It is a neat steeping stool.

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  5. How sturdy is something like that?

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  6. It would be helpful to have the instructions on how to crochet and knit the cover. Thanks!

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  7. was wondering if you would be able to sit on this? or would it break? it looks tempting to sit on so i know if i try this SOMEONE will sit on it and i dont want my hard work destroyed so easily.

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  8. It is very steady and solid. And you can use hardwearing fabric instead of crocheted pieces.

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