Nobody is more surprised than me that I made the Closet Core Pouf. Not that I'm against poufs or anything but I wouldn't exactly say they're up my alley.

This poly pretending to be boiled wool tricked me in the chaos of a Textile Garage sale, and I was bummed when I found out. Didn't want to make it into a garment so this seemed a good use for it!

Modified the pattern to be full circles of fabric on top and bottom and a continuous strip around the edges to use as much of the offending fabric as possible.

The binding is orange because... I quit cutting the regular fabric when I got to making the bias binding for piping — because meh, who wants to do that? I shoved the cut pieces and remaining fabric back in my stash. Later, we needed a red flag to tie on a canoe we'd be carrying on top of our car. I forgot the red fabric now had a purpose and I cut the rest up for a flag OOPS!! So I had to cut piping out of this other orangeish fabric, but I like the result a lot!

Embarrassingly had enough scraps squirreled away that it's pretty full already.

Next time, I would maybe interline the pieces with cheap muslin or another sturdy fabric I can find stashed scrap of, even something like a midweight canvas or bottom weight of some kind. This would give the pouf a little more structure, to help it feel "sturdier" when I grab it to drag it around the living room, and would maybe help smooth out the look. Sometimes the scraps inside can get bunchy and the pouf can appear a little lumpy, but if the scraps were up against something with less drape and more structure it would probably help keep the bunchiness in check.