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| Craft a doll sofa and hassock using two pairs of matching, adult size, knee socks. The footstool of this design is sometimes referred to as a pouf. Pouf is an English word derived from the French pouffe meaning "puffed out" or bouffer which means ottoman. The word "pouffe" refers to something smaller than an ordinary sized ottoman. |
It's easy to make a doll's sofa from a pair of socks. I double these up however, to give our sofa durability. I even had enough stocking material to stuff a hassock (foot rest).
I cut a large base for the sock sofa using the foot portion of the socks. Sew this up leaving an inch or two open so that you can turn the cushion inside out and stuff it with beans, rice, or plastic pellets. You will need the lower cushion to be much heavier than the upper portion in order to keep the sofa upright, in position.
Then sew the remainder of the sock into a long narrow tube, turning it inside-out and stuffing it with cotton batting in the same way that you did the lower cushion. Make sure that your seams are tight so that the socks will not unravel with play.
Now shape the upper cushion to fit the top of the sofa's curve. I also wrapped a chenille stem with the leftover knit pieces and wrapped these around the upper cushion to emphasize the left and right arms of the sofa.
I attached the upper and lower cushions with a curved needle and thread but you could choose to use hot glue to do this instead.
To make the hassock just roll the cut cuffs from the socks inside of each other. Then take a needle and thread and draw together the end pieces of sock. Pull and tighten the threads to close both the top and bottom openings of the hassock.
Supply List:
- cotton batting
- a sack of beans, rice or plastic pellets
- two pairs of identical knee socks
- needle and thread
- curved needle (optional)
- two pipe cleaners or chenille stems
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| Left, a doll sized hassock for Barbie and her Bratz friends. The hassock measures 3 1/2" across. Right, a soft sock sofa made from grey wool knee socks that I found at a Goodwill. The length is 10 1/2", the width is 4 1/2" and the height is 3 1/2". |
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The Bratz New Sofa Story.
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| "Try out my new soft sock sofa," she says. |
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| "It's so comfy." |
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| "I just had it delivered." |
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| "There's only one foot rest, though" |
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| "Ouch!" she says. |
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| "I said it is a sofa; not a loveseat." |
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| "What! an Eskimo kiss!" |
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| "Well, that's one way to get the sofa all to myself!" |
