This month's Island Batik Challenge is to Try It! The fabrics and batting featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and Hobbs Batting.
I have owned the parts and pieces to make a full-sized tuffet for almost 3 years. However, I have not had the guts to actually make a tuffet! There are lots of parts and pieces to purchase if you are not getting a kit.
Here are the supplies you'll need:
- Pattern: Quick and Cute Tuffets by Erin Underwood Quilts
- Foam core
- 4 feet
- Wooden base (not shown)
- Twine
- Size 100 button to cover
- 15deg ruler
- Batting (not shown)
- Staple gun (not shown)
- Upholstery needle (not shown)
- Dowel rod (not shown)
Lots of supplies that have been gathering dust in my sewing room because of fear!
This particular pattern uses the 15deg ruler for the wedges. I love Island Batik solids because they press SUPER flat and the bulky center was not very noticeable. It looks like striped candy!
I didn't take too many in-progress photos because I was too busy wrangling the bits of the tuffet, but I love how it turned out. The pattern also calls to trim the top corner edge, essentially to round the edge. I attempted this but very quickly realized that I didn't have the proper tools and opted to keep the sides square and not rounded. This in turn made my tuffet very... cylindrical and putting the button down the middle would have made it very awkward looking. I think my tuffet looks pretty good just being a cylinder!
Some tips to make it, I used a 6" foam circle, but I probably should have gone with an 8". I ended up with more fabric on the button of the tuffet than I'd wanted and had to get the feet installed before pulling the cord tight to really wrap the fabric around the tuffet.
Also, huge shoutout to my brother-in-law Greg who drilled all the holes I needed in the wooden base for the feet and button. He did this almost 2 years ago, I bet he never thought I'd finish it!
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