Giant Potato Printed Pouf

I have been meaning to make a pouf  like this one by Bromiliad for ages and ages. I finally did! The raw material was an old quilted bedspread found in the "dog blanket bin" at my local Goodwill. It was incredibly worn in the center and had one corner hacked off (why? I haven't the slightest).  I would have been too embarrassed to donate something so bad, but I'm glad someone did, because it was perfect for this.

The fabric on the backside of the quilt was a plain gray which I potato printed with cream acrylic paint. The alternating pattern of light and darker prints is the result of printing in continuous rows, but only "loading" the potato with paint for every other impression. It exceeded my expectations. I've been doing a lot of experimenting in the last several weeks, but this is my first real project using potato printing. Printing took a long time (4 episodes of the the Dick Van Dyke Show, to be exact). Incidentally, if you try this: cut out the pieces, print them, sew them together last.

I made some slight changes from Bromiliad's instructions. I used her pattern (found here) but, I made it slightly larger (A=9", B=6", C=22") which yielded a very large pouf (14" high and 28" across). I made this partly to store fabric and clothing and it does hold a lot. The other change I made was putting the opening on the bottom. I just left a large opening and made a flap to go over it.

Find the tutorial for small and large poufs at Bromiliad. Pattern here.