Making a Draught Excluder

A few months back i was visiting my friend who has just bought her first house and admiring the place when i noticed she was using a scarf to block the draught from the cellar door and so i kindly offered to make her a draught excluder! Having never made anything of the kind it was bit of a trial and error approach, which thankfully didn't end up with too much error!

Items needed- fabric, fabric marker, scissors, tape measure, wadding, and sewing machine or needle and thread.

I measured the width of the door and added 2 inches to the length to allow for seams. The fabric width was about 20cm -I took the fabric and folded it over inside out to start sewing

secure the edge to be sewn with pins

I just used a simple stitch on the machine and sewed two of the 3 sides, then turned the fabric the right way out

The i filled the whole thing with cushion wadding. I did read a tutorial online which said fill with rice. Whilst I'm sure that would have been better in terms of weight- i don't think i could afford enough rice to fill the whole thing and it would be too heavy to carry!

Finally i just sewed up the end and it was finished! Whole thing took 1 hour maximum