So I made this Sit-Upon around June, but I just am getting around to posting about it. In my book ‘A Daring Book for Girls' I found to a way to make the Sit-Upon. A comfy little mat to place and sit upon anywhere, any time.
I did not use water proof material, (in other words I broke the rules=:) but I think it turned out looking pretty good!
I had many choices of upholstery samples that I could use; I chose the darker red to use on the side facing down, and a lighter shade for sitting upon.
(Although now people have started sitting on the red side)
At first while I was making the Sit-Upon I threaded the material with my fingers. As you can guess that did not go very quickly.
Mom had the great idea to get a large needle for those holes:)
wow! How genius!
So, at first it was just a free for all, and everyone sort of just took the Sit-Upon and sat upon it. But I made a new system. On the beautiful black board in our beautiful kitchen I wrote who got the Sit-Upon. Now I take in all the remarks about tiredness, stress and the lack of sitting on the Sit-Upon. then I decide who gets it, and I write it on the board!
I am pretty proud of what a success it is!
Rosie says
What a great inaugural post! I can't wait to come back home and get another turn to sit upon the Sit-Upon.
momof4sweetsisters says
So cute! I made them in girl scouts 30 years ago…. We planned on making them at our fall birthday campout, out of wall paper. You did a great job!
M. Alexander says
I was in girls scouts once and missed a meeting where we were going to make a "sit upon" for a camp fire.I read the instructions- put newspaper into a plastic garbage bag and interpreted it to mean that I should stuff a WHOLE WADDED up newspaper into a garbage bag (lawnsize of course) and create a "bean bag sit upon".Can you imagine me sitting there at the campfire where it was not nearly dark enough in my bean bag sit upon while everyone else reclined on their sit upon.Thanks for bringing up such a painful memory. 😉
Leila says
Mary, you are so funny!