Craft: Love Sac

There is a company called Love Sac that makes really big bean bag chairs.  Our creation was based on their bags but we spent less then $10 on it, so we think of it more as a "Trash Bag."  How the "Trash Bag" came to be...

Our "Trash Bag"

 We had an extra couch in the house for a couple of days and I started thinking, "what could I do with this?"  Just before it was taken away by someone on craigslist an idea started forming. This brought about a hunt for couch cushions.  We found them on craigslist, as people carried them to the dumpsters (hence "Trash Bag"), and even got donations from friends that heard what we were making.  We decided that if we cut the foam cushions into 1 inch squares it would be flexible enough, but also hold a bit of it's shape. We cut, and cut, and cut.  We found faster ways to cut by using a knife and sawing large lines and then breaking the pieces off. The quality of the foam made a huge difference on how well this worked, the newer the better.  The newer foam was a little more firm, less rubbery, and usually had a lighter color to it.

1 inch foam squares

 We soon found we needed something large to fit all these foam pieces into.  The answer was a queen duvet cover.  However, it was the wrong shape, so we needed to create our own bag.

Queen Duvet

  Once that was getting pretty full we made an 'inner sac' out of old twin sheets that we got on freecycle.  We simply decided what size and shape we wanted.  After that we sewed two sheets together and made some squares on the end with a third sheet.  We also used a zipper (the only things we bought were zippers) on one of the little sides so that we could still stuff the foam pieces into the sack.

Inner Sac

The outer cover used to be a micro-suede couch cover that a friend was going to trash.  Brian unpicked it and cut it into strips.  Since it came from a couch, there were a few different widths but there were two large sections that fit the shape well.  We also added a zipper to this bag.  However, this time we did it along one of the long seams so that it would run the length of the bag and could slide over the inner bag.  Having the two bags makes it so that we can remove and wash the outer cover without having little foam pieces all over the floor.

Outer Cover with Some Monkeys

Though we did have to dump the foam squares out at least one time.  The kids still beg for us to pull the foam pieces out to play in.  

Playing in the foam

But they also have fun jumping, climbing, flipping, and rolling across our bag.

Using it as a slide

Mindy's post got me thinking and I remembered something I have made to sit on.  We would love to read your ideas too!

By Julia S.