Friday, August 31, 2007

Door Stopped

It has been hot hot hot here lately and we only have air conditioners in the two bedrooms. The rest of the house is unbearable, especially my craft room, which has an entire wall of windows that face the morning sun. The heat gets trapped in there and stays into the wee hours of the night. So last night I grabbed my sewing machine, my iron and my small ironing board and holed up in the bedroom.
We like to have our cats join us at night in our "family bed" but they need to be able to come and go as they please because, well, they're cats. When it's air conditioner weather we try to keep the door as close to shut as possible to keep the cool in while still letting the pusses out. Up until now our doorstop of choice has been a Minnesota Northstars water bottle filled with change. Not ideal. So last night I made the perfect cool air keeper-inner, this doorstop from Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing.
I followed the pattern and even went out to Ralph's at 11 'o clock to buy five pounds of beans. This is how it turned out.
Pretty cute and definitely functional but kind of a droopy sad sack. So this morning I ripped open one of the top seams and stuffed some fiber fill in on top of the beans.
Much better!

4 comments:

  1. Your doorstop is very cute. The cats should be grateful you spoil them so much!

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  2. Oh that's so smart. Other blogs I've read have just added more beans!

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  3. Anonymous6:12 AM

    I just purchased this book too and can't wait to whip up a few of the projects. Love the door stop and thanks for the tip, that it may need more stuffing.

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  4. Anonymous8:06 PM

    do you know what this fabric is called? it's so pretty1

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