How to Make a Woven Floor Pouf for Your Little One

We have the perfect weekend project for your little DIYer’s playroom — woven floor poufs! Remember when we brought you a month of DIY and introduced you to weaving? Well, we’re taking it to the next level and weaving a whole floor pouf using… you’ll never guess… a winter sled! This project will definitely take some time to make, but your little one can step in for some time if your fingers get tired. Just make sure to follow the over/under pattern and don’t pull the strings too tight! (Keep reading to find out below what will happen…)

Materials:
– jersey fabric

– fiber fill

– string

Tools:

saucer sled
– scissors

– duct tape

Instructions:

1. Tape the string to the back of the saucer sled. Wrap around and tape the string down again. Pivot the saucer ever so slightly and wrap and tape again. You will wrap 32 times to create your loom. On your last wrap, only go half way to the center of the sled and tie it off. This will give you a loom with 33 strings.

2. Cut a bunch of one-inch pieces of your jersey material. Stretch them out to become string.

3. Tie the first jersey string to the center of the loom and start to weave. Over, under, over, under. Make sure to let the string have a normal tension — if you pull too tight, your pouf will pucker.

4. When you’re finished with your first color, tie on your next color and keep weaving.

5. Once you’ve reached the edge of the loom, tie your jersey thread to the loom strings. Then cut the loom strings and tie into pairs.

6. Now repeat steps 1-5 to create the other half of your floor pouf!

7. Grab your two halves and make sure the knotty side is facing inward. Tie the white loom strings from one side to the white loom strings of the other side. This will bring your pouf together. Leave about three loom strings untied so you have room to stuff.

8. Stuff with fiber fill. Stuff as much as you can to get your pouf shape. Then tie the last strings together.

9. Grab three of your leftover jersey strings and weave them into the joining section of the pouf. Create a braid to bind the two halves together.

Yes, that is a sled.

We used about 3.5 combined yards of jersey fabric. Cut your favorite colors into one-inch strips. Pull at the fabric to create string.

A couple people in the office stopped to ask me what a saucer sled was; shame on them. Tape the string to the back of the sled and wrap around to create a loom. Wrap it around 32 times then tie it to the back. A circle loom won’t work unless it has an odd number of strings, so you’ll need to tie another piece to the front where all the strings meet, then tie to the back and tape down.

Use the duct tape to secure the loom in place.

Time to start weaving! I hope you remember how from the #31daysofDIY. Over, under, over, under, etc. Make sure to not pull the strings too tight. You will want the fabric to be woven at its own tension.

Tie the next color to the end of the string. Continue weaving like nothing ever happened.

Just keep weaving.

Weave until you’ve reached the outer edge of the sled.

Tie your last piece to the string on the loom. You are now almost done with one side of the pouf, and you’ll need to repeat the steps above to make the other half.

Cut the loom strings and double knot into pairs.

Tada! Two halves to your floor poof.

Tie the loom strings to each other to start forming your spherical shape. Make sure the knotted side of the weaving is facing inward.

Stuff with as much fiber fill as you can. You will want your pouf to be nice and dense.

Finish tying the loom strings together and then cut all unnecessary pieces.

Your pouf will be attached together, but the middle seam is very fragile. We added a fishtail braid to really secure the pouf together. Slide three jersey strips into the pouf and start to braid. Weave the braid into the woven section every so often to make sure it’s attached.

Your very own woven floor pouf! TBH – this floor pouf went through a lot. When weaving, I pulled the strings too tight so it made the pouf more pointy and it looked like a large easter egg! We left the pouf under a piece of wood with weights on the top and it flattened out into a solid sphere shape. Learn from my mistakes, but if you don’t it can be fixed ;)

Floor poufs are the perfect seat for a day of coloring.

They are also the perfect toy for playing with when you are finished with coloring.

When you’re four, it’s perfectly okay for a floor pouf to be your dance partner.

A special thanks to Henley for her amazing morning of floor-pouf modeling.

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If you can't stop talking about Severance season 2, you're not alone. The Apple TV+ show has totally taken over the internet (and all my group chats) and as the mysteries at Lumon continue to unfold, there's one heartbreaking, viral theory surrounding this week's episode, and Gemma, that has the internet in a tizzy.

Keep reading for the most insane Severance season 2, episode 9 theory on the internet.

Has Gemma been an innie the whole time?

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TikTok user @msauroraalice made the connection that Severance season 2 episode 9, "The After Hours," has the same title as a specific Twilight Zone episode in which a mannequin, well, forgets she's a mannequin. And now we're all wondering whether Severance is going to reveal a very similar plotline with Gemma.

"Could Gemma have been manufactured at Lumon and all of her experience with Mark is just a severed version of herself," @msauroraalice says, theorizing that "there is no Gemma."

"I bet this next episode, Gemma or Helly has a horrifying discovery about themselves just like the mannequin realizing she's not even alive," she continues.

Clearly, this Twilight Zone episode has a ton of similarities to Severance, with the split identities of it all. And as one Reddit user just made it even more heartbreaking by saying, "She could be an experiment from the very start which is why they went as far as to fake her death and recruit Mark to work for them. That would be heartbreaking. It would mean Mark and Gemma 's relationship was manufactured from the beginning."

"The After Hours" is sure to set us up for a crazy 'Severance' season 2 finale.

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After everything Mark has been through, this would truly be a heartbreaking turn of events and I don't know if I could handle it! I'm not alone, either. TikTok users flooded the comments of the post (which has over 900K views).

"If Gemma was never a full person to begin with I'm gonna lose my mind," one user said, while another theorized, "I think Gemma is real but she actually died. Lumon had plans for her to begin with so they revived her body because they effectively own it and now she's stuck in purgatory testing."

But if this Severance theory breaks your heart as much as it breaks mine, there's a silver lining. "The next episode after 'The After Hours' from TWZ is called 'The Mighty Casey' and is about a robot who becomes more human I believe," a third TikTok user says.

But honestly, emotional devastation — and peeling back a character's insecurities, fears, and heartbreak to get to their core — make for really good TV because of how relatable those moments can be. So we'll just have to see what the Severance season 2 finale has in store.

Here are 10 Questions I Need Severance Season 2 To Answer — let us know on Instagram what kinds of questions and theories you have.

St. Patrick's Day in America is known mostly as an excuse to have a day-long marathon of drinking green beer (we'll take some green cocktails, too), but if staying in is more your jam, you'll need some epic DIY party favorsand a slew of adorable St. Patrick's Day-themed treats! In this collection of St. Patrick's Day desserts, you'll find everything from rainbow cupcakes and Lucky Charms pancakes, to Leprechauns made out of Nutter Butters and boozy green fudge. Yum.

Throw on your best “Kiss Me, I'm Irish" apron and have some fun with these 25 delicious St. Patrick's Day desserts!

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St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Donuts

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St. Patrick's Day Dessert Shots

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Lucky Charms Ice Cream

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St. Patrick’s Day Dessert Pizza

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Drunken Grasshopper Fudge

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St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Cookies

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St. Patrick’s Day Rice Krispie Treats

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Mint Chocolate Chip Pie For St. Patrick’s Day

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St. Patrick’s Day Mint Chocolate Cake

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No-Bake Mint-Free St. Patrick’s Day Dessert

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Shamrock Sour Cocktail

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Chocolate Irish Cream Filled Donuts

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Chocolate Mint Brownie Milkshake

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Pot of Gold Cupcakes

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Green Velvet Cheesecake Cake

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St. Patrick’s Day Caramel Corn

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White Chocolate Lucky Charms Cookies

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Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

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St. Patrick’s Day Puppy Chow

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Mini Whoopie Pies

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This post has been updated with additional reporting by Meredith Holser.