I go through one or two a year. They're very cheap - I never pay more than a dollar or so for them. When the old one is dead, I buy a new one and throw the old one away. But every time I do, I feel a little twinge. There's some good material there, you know? There must be something I could do with it!
A few days ago, my pouf fell apart and I bought a new one. But I laundered the old one and set it aside.
I decided to put it to our followers what I should do with it. So... what do you folks think? Is the pouf worth saving? (There are 5 yards of tubular netting/tulle/whatever those things are made of.) Or should I just toss it? Vote in the poll on the sidebar, then leave your suggestions for a craft or whatever in the comments. I promise to abide by the results of the poll. I'll post in a couple of weeks and let you know what I do with it.
Mahalo for your help!
Lorie
Hmmm...if you have a veggie garden, you could use the material as bird netting....you could sew them up into veggie and fruit bags to use when you go food shopping.
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I would make it into a tutu for your cat! (he would love it!)
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if it could be pieced together to make a net swim or sand toy bag.
ReplyDeleteI saw an idea for making faux flowers with tulle on another blog, its basically tulle after all. If you have a "bowdabra" im sure it would work!
ReplyDeleteGood Luck with that
I always think anything is worth keeping - even if it takes a long time to think of what to do with it! Some great ideas already! I never thought to keep mine before - but I will now! I look forward to seeing what you do with it!!
ReplyDeleteI'd love if you linked this up to my Round Tuit party at:
http://jembellish.blogspot.com/2010/08/round-tuit-10.html
Have a great week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
mine fell apart awhile back too...it is white...and I keep thinking I'm going to make a giant Santa clause and the poof will be his beard :) you could spray paint yours white!or you could definitely do some kind of t-shirt re-vamp with it...flowers, ruffles?? thank you for linking up to MMM!
ReplyDeleteWhat about cutting it in strips and using it to crochet a pot scrubber or a small basket? Seems do-able!
ReplyDeleteI was going to suggest crocheting something, too, as Ellen did. What I would do is get some cotton yarn (like Sugar & Cream--it's available at Michael's and Walmart and pretty cheap). Then I'd cut the yarn into strips and crochet it in a double strand--part yarn, part scratchy stuff. Here is a simple circular pattern:
ReplyDeleteMake two chains.
Do 6 single crochets(holding the two strands together) into the second chain from the hook. (In other words, the first chain you made.)
Chain one, and work back in the other direction: do a single right next to the chain you just made.
Now make 2 SCs in each loop around until you have 12.
Slip stitch into the starting chain, chain 1, then turn and go back the other way. Now you will make 2 chains in the next loop, then one chain. Repeat 2 in one loop and 1 in the next loop until you get to the end. You'll have 18 chains now.
Slip stitch, make a chain and turn. Now you're going to do 2 chains in one, then one chain each in the next 2. Like this: 2-1-1, 2-1-1. You'll end up with 24.
Just keep going around like this. You always start with 2 chains in one loop, but add an extra single crochet in each group. So you'll have 2 chains in one, then 1 single crochet in the next 3 to make 30. Then 2 in one and 1 in each of the next 4 to make 36. As you see, each round increases by 6. Just be sure to join each row with a slip stitch. You could also just keep doing this round-and-round but then you have to mark the beginnings.
I hope you don't mind the little tutorial!
Maybe barbie or doll tutus? Or use it on a wreath of some kinda??
ReplyDeleteI'm seeing a cool Halloween wreath out of this! Spray paint a wreath base or even a cardboard shape black, gather it with a straight stitch and glue/wire this on then embellish for Halloween. Glittered black, orange, purple or even lime green bats, skulls, pumpkins, etc would look stunning against the black pouf.
ReplyDeleteI see the Halloween thing too. Use it for the spider web with purple spiders on it. OR
ReplyDeleteYou can braid 3 of these and add rope handles to the ends and make a shower back scrubber out of it.
I like the back scrubber idea. I could also see it as a "flower"-like adornment on a cute pair of flats. Just sew it, or glue it to some cute elastic to slide it on and off different pairs, or glue it to a pin back.
ReplyDeleteHow about using some of the material to make poufy bows and use clear fishing line to attach it to a hair barrette?
ReplyDeleteI normally use my old one to clean the shower with. It does great work on soap gunk. But when it actually falls apart, I usually pitch it. Maybe I'll have to look at repurposing my next one.