Lovesac

(if you click on the picture, it will make it bigger and easier to see)

In February and March of 2006, we started a project. Who knew that we'd still be working on it today... well yesterday actually. We finished it for the third time.. lol. We wanted a lovesac because the couches at my apartment were like cement blocks..aka extremely uncomfortable. But we didn't want to buy one, a couple hundred dollars was a little out of our college student price range. The clubhouse at my apartment complex had real lovesacs so we looked at them and figured, we could make one. So we acquired some carpet padding, bought some fabric, and a zipper and went to work. We made a pattern, he was the genius behind that. We made it out of newspapers. It was going to be HUGE, six feet in diameter. We cut it out, sewed it all together, and then the hard part came... shredding the carpet padding. We worked on that for a long long time. Every day after we finished our homework we'd put on a movie, or watch the Olympics, and shred carpet padding. After a while, we started to think, maybe we were a little too ambitious trying to fill a six-foot-in-diameter lovesac. So we cut it down and resewed it. The sewing on the huge one was beautiful! No tucks, no folds, beautiful! The smaller one... not so much (and it didn't have a zipper). So we did sit on it and enjoy the comfort, but the looks were not so great. Needless to say, after that school year, it stayed at my parents house.

Recently we decided we should revive the lovesac, show it a little love, and fix it. So that's what we did. We emptied it, took it apart, re-cut it, resewed it, made a liner so we can take to cover off to wash it, added two zippers, purchased some more comfy foam, mixed that foam with some of the carpet padding, and now it's beautiful again!

PS The pictures of us recently were our attempts at trying to get the inside to fit with only one 2 foot zipper... yeah that wasn't happening. We tried shoving it in, we tried vacuum packing it (that's what I'm doing in the picture), we tried a mixture of vacuum packing and shoving (that's what he's doing in the picture). It just wasn't working, so we got another zipper and it fit worked a champ!