A Tale of Two Oodies

The Backstory: My youngest teen was tidying her clothes and going through them. She owns two oodies – they’re square shaped oversized tops with long sleeves, hood and pockets. One wears them at home, sort of like a dressing gown. They’re both very soft polar fleece with a shaggy lining. She doesn’t really wear them anymore, but was reluctant to get rid of them (can we all relate to this?). The Bluey print one was a gift, and the grey one was from the second hand shop. Being bulky, they take up quite a bit of space.

The Solution: We discussed turning them into a cushion for her bed, in such a way that they could easily be converted back. What if one became the cushion, stuffed with the other one?

She favoured the Bluey one for the outside, which is bigger than the grey. It would have been great if the square shape for the body was just the right size for the cushion, but it was too big.

I turned the oodie inside out and pinned a cushion shape. Only flower headed pins had enough grunt to get through the fleece!

I started with a 24″/61cm square, but it was a bit loose when stuffed:

So it got reduced to about 20″/51cm which was just right.

Following the pins, I machine stitched it using a chunky needle and a long straight stitch. I flipped it to the right side and stuffed it with the grey one.

The hems got whipstitched together to close it up.

It’s a little lumpy but will probably smooth out. Actually it came out better than I thought. She got a free bedmake so I could take a photo.

Another happy ending!