my first homemade furniture

Well I have been traveling a lot lately it seems so I haven't made anything new other than a hat I knitted on the way to London like the green one I made earlier. However, yesterday I had the day off (until midnight at least) and was feeling crafty so I decided to make a pouf to sit on or use as a table out of old t-shirts. I've been trying to figure out what to do with all the t-shirts that hold so many memories but I never wear so I thought this was a good plan. This was my inspiration:

Mine didn't end up looking anything like that one but its growing on me.

I started by cutting out the best parts of the t shirts in triangles. I may have gone a little crazy with the cutting.

Then I sewed the flat ends together to make 8 pieces. Gourd was trying to help but really just making everything hairy. Notice he chose the one color that his white fur would show up best on.

Then I sewed all eight pieces together. The plan was to stuff it with the scraps of the t-shirts. It turns out it is WAYYYY bigger than I imagined it would be so I bought cheap pillows at walmart and stuffed it with that. I'm still not sure that was the perfect stuffing as it is not very solid like I wanted it to be but I couldn't think of anything else at the moment. Then I put another t-shirt circle on the top. Here is the final result:

From the top:

From the side:

And the bottom:

I still may change the stuffing if I can think of anything better. And I'm also kind of disappointed that the shirts on the bottom don't really show at all. The circle top would be easy to take off and put back if I need to. For now it works just fine as my first home made piece of furniture! What do you think?!