As you well know, I’m fond of scissoring anything I’m sick of into a more exciting version of itself. While this tactic is intended to preserve clothes I might otherwise toss, it has a nasty side effect of creating excess fabric. Old tees can be given away, but it’s not like you can donate the leg portion of a pair of jeans after they’ve been scissored into cutoffs. That’s just dicky.I’ve been hoarding extra fabric of this ilk for quite some time now, hoping for a flash of brilliance that might illuminate its purpose. The other day, I pulled a heinous floor pillow out of the closet, and the light bulb finally went off.
The above is technically a dog bed, purchased for fifteen bucks at Bed Bath and Beyond a while back. Misbehave in my apartment, you get relegated to the dog bed. The uber-blah appearance of the floor pillow/dog bed didn’t bother me initially; after a few months, it became a serious eyesore. It needed a covering more in sync with my living space’s aesthetic. And by covering, I mean an oversize pillowcase crafted from the material casualties of my scissored creations.
I trimmed the fabric into squares and rectangles, and fitted them together to resemble the shape of the floor pillow. I busted out the hot glue gun (best tool EVER), and glued the pieces together. I then repeated this process for the other side of the pillowcase.
I laid the finished pieces on top of each other and poked some evenly spaced holes around the perimeter. Then I placed them over the pillow, and knotted them together with ties cut from a pair of old tights.
A thrilling addition to any apartment, fo sho.
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