The Other Ottoman

Furniture should be like jeans.  I should be able to purchase it as short, regular, or long.  I'd buy the short version.  Sorry to all the tall people.  You get to be tall and buy clothes without having to shorten everything.  Totally unfair.  So in my fairytale world of furniture...all the tall people just need to suck it up should your knees happen to hit your chin while sitting on my petite couch.  Imagine how much it sucks to have dangling feet.  Yep...totally sucks a lot.

And since it's mucho importante to perfect the art of being a lazy couch potato...I have to fix all dangling feet issues. I'd probably watch less tv if I weren't so dang comfy watching the thing.  But that would be a problem with a whole bunch of new Jersey Shore episodes to catch up on.  And sometimes...I allow the hubby to have the couch.  Yep...I'm nice like that.  Meaning = if he should take up residence on the couch before I do...I don't kick him off...well not most of the time.  So this leaves me with sitting in the leather chair.  With dangling feet.  Which is totally distracting while I'm trying to watch my very educational, stimulating, thought provoking shows.  Seriously...how can I follow the baby-daddy drama of the housewives if I'm distracted by my dangling feet.

So my chair needed an ottoman/footstool.  And it had to be round.  So I shopped.  And shopped.  And shopped.  And realized that was a huge waste of time.  Plan B = make my own.  So I bought a foam round ottoman from Hancock Fabric (on sale plus coupon = cost only $15).  Seems like it would be flimsy but I can sit on the thing with my full weight and it doesn't sink down.  Not one bit.  Then I used a really fluffy sherpa throw blanket we already owned as the fabric.  Fluffy was key to this project.  Why?  Well...I can only sew in straight lines.  And this thing is round.  Yes...round.  So somehow I was going to have to accomplish the impossible.  Sew the fabric into a slipcover with a round top.  Yes...round.   So fluffy fabric = hide the flaws.  Because there will be flaws.  And I have no patience to practice my technique with a test run.  Nope...just jump right in and hope it works.

Overall...I survived with only few casualties...a few thread jams, wonky seams, a broken needle.  And I didn't sew the needle through my fingers so I consider this project a complete success!