1. One of the more annoying tidbits about our house is that the front door has a very large gap underneath. In the winter this makes for quite a draft. This past winter though I got…crafty.
2. Some old tea towels.
3. Two towels stitched together to make one longer length.
4. Spread some everyday pea gravel along one edge.
5. Roll up the towel and sew the ends shut. For added thickness, roll a second towel around the first; this also keeps any dust from the gravel contained. I rolled and secured the second towels separately to not have a big lump in the middle, since I was lazy and didn’t want to undo the original edge seams of the towels.
6. Cover the towel bits with a sock made from a prettier fabric if desired…
7. …and the end result will be something like this.
I ended up making two such black wormy things, and turned this…into this.
Pretty awesome for stopping the draft. Now if only I could make something similar for our giant three-sided fireplace/chimney.
Oh, and that little basket on the floor there? That’s now full of little booties that contractors can slip over their shoes. I found a bunch mixed in with the car-cleaning supplies, leftovers from when we lived in SF and would have the carpet on the stairs up from the street cleaned. For some reason, even though it was just two of us in that house, the guy who did the cleaning always insisted on leaving us a dozen or more of them.