{"id":10668,"date":"2026-07-24T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/?p=10668"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:08:37","slug":"projekt-10-eurone-tool-ehk-kuidas-uks-lihtne-mote-jalle-taiesti-kaest-ara-laks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/projekt-10-eurone-tool-ehk-kuidas-uks-lihtne-mote-jalle-taiesti-kaest-ara-laks\/","title":{"rendered":"Project \u201cThe \u20ac10 Chair\u201d, or How One Simple Idea Got Completely Out of Hand Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\"Memm<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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How it all began<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It actually all started with a phone call. My daughter-in-law was in a second-hand shop and my son rang me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMum, there are chairs here. Ten euros each. Want them?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do I want them? Naturally I do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever the whole family gets together, we always have the same problem. There are more people than chairs. Someone drags in an office chair from another room, someone sits on a stool, and eventually the whole house turns into one big furniture-moving exercise. At that price, there was not much to think about. My daughter-in-law even brought the chairs home for me. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First impressions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The chairs themselves were sturdy. The wood was good. But that fabric… worn. A little tired. And most importantly… it simply was not me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Vana<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Vana<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I could have just cleaned them and carried on using them. But if I was going to do anything at all, I wanted to do it so that every time I walked past, I would think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes… now it\u2019s right.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready-made stretchy chair covers? No. They are simply not my style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so the great yarn saga began<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first plan was very simple. I would make macram\u00e9 covers for the chairs. In theory, at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In practice, a long journey through Temu, AliExpress and craft shops began. At one point I was absolutely convinced I needed 3 mm braided polyester cord. Then I was equally certain that what I actually needed was a completely different kind of polyester cord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Toolikatte<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Toolikatte<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Heegeldatud<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Toolikatte<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Heegeldatud<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Toolikatte<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I investigated cotton macram\u00e9 cords, hollow cotton yarns, crochet yarns and about five other materials whose existence I had known nothing about that same morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point I even ended up sitting on my own macram\u00e9 rug. A perfectly scientific question had arisen: is polyester too slippery to sit on? Sacrifices have to be made in the name of science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experiment was a success. The rug was not slippery at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the more inspiration photos I looked at, the less I wanted to do macram\u00e9. And the more textured crochet patterns I saw, the more I liked them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Toolikatte<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Valitud<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eventually I arrived at a rather uncomfortable realisation. Maybe I did not actually want to do macram\u00e9. Maybe I simply wanted the finished piece to look like macram\u00e9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those are not at all the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is how I arrived at Nako Denim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Nako<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Nako<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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After four hours of searching. After dozens of open browser windows. After countless reviews. After endless deliberation. And, naturally, after a long discussion with ChatGPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historical note: 06.06.2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiina listened to the AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not because the AI told her to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not because the AI was smarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But because after our four-hour argument, 57 cords, 14 colour charts, three existential crises and one experiment involving me sitting on my rug, the AI finally reached the same conclusion I had already been heading towards myself. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most unbelievable part is not even that I listened. The most unbelievable part is that I did not buy something else in the meantime.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, that is Olympic-level self-control. \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I have to admit that if someone had told me at the start of the day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy this evening you\u2019ll be buying Nako Denim from Karnaluks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would have replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe you. First I\u2019ll work my way through at least three Chinese platforms and consider 17 alternatives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which, naturally, is exactly what happened. \ud83d\udc80<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this yarn turns out to be the right choice, this day deserves a place in the memoirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83c\udfc6 \u201cThe Great Yarn Crisis of 2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subtitle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe rare occasion when Tiina did not buy on the first impulse, but thought for four hours and ended up happy with the decision.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Days like that do not happen very often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nako Denim. Light beige. Exactly the sort of shade that suits my dark oak table, old sideboard and my \u201cold-soul\u201d home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bought ten balls and was absolutely convinced that would be enough for six chairs. Optimism is supposed to be what keeps us moving forward…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first chair was finished. Then I weighed the yarn I had left. Did the maths. Looked again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And realised…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One chair had used about six balls.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sat quietly for a little while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My wallet sat there too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then it fainted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello again, Karnaluks!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, I had to go back to the shop. I bought another 20 balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way… completely baffling. They cost more in Karnaluks\u2019s online shop than they did in the physical shop. I have no idea how that is possible. If anyone knows, feel free to explain it to me too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The patterns need changing too<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I made the first chair in a honeycomb pattern. But I realised fairly quickly that if I made six chairs in a row exactly the same, I might eventually find myself accidentally crocheting a chair cover for Bim as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So a new plan was born. Three chairs would have the honeycomb pattern<\/strong>. Three would have the waffle pattern<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both devour yarn with equal enthusiasm. At least it keeps things more interesting for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"K\u00e4rjemustriga
Honeycomb pattern<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Vahvel\"
Waffle pattern<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Siin\"
Crocheted ribbing for the backrest<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And then came the wash test<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Toolikatte<\/figure>
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Because let\u2019s be honest. If I have spent six weeks (or at least it felt like it) wrestling with one chair, I want to know what happens after the first wash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I washed the covers in warm water. No spinning them around in the washing machine, just nice and gently. I simply let most of the water drain out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I put them to dry… directly on the chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not because I have some fancy drying studio at home. Simply because if the cover was going to stretch, it might as well stretch to fit exactly the chair it was made for.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I put plastic over the chair first, because wet crochet and chair upholstery are not exactly the most romantic pairing in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then the waiting began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That honeycomb pattern is so thick and dense that at one point I started thinking that when the end of the world comes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and my chair covers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it did dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And most importantly… it did not stretch out. It did not sag. It did not start going wavy anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it can now officially be said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project survived its first wash.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Memm<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But the hardest part was not the crochet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The hardest question was actually:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I attach the cover to the chair?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first thought was ribbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It looked… well… rather pornographic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Heegeldatud<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back to Karnaluks I went. I bought hooks. Rings. Elastic. Came home. Looked at them. Thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And realised…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was going to look exactly as pornographic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shit happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes the best ideas arrive only after every other one has been tried<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the end, I abandoned all of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, I crocheted bows. Under them I hid the hooks that I used to fasten the corners of the back edge of the seat cover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the lower edge of the sides of the bottom cover, I threaded elastic in exactly the same shade through the crocheted ribbing. I attached the matching hook pieces to the ends of the elastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Valmis<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I pulled the elastic taut and fastened the hooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In places where elastic alone was not enough, tiny stainless golden pins came to the rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You cannot see them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And most importantly…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does not look like porn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The backrest cover<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The solution for the backrest turned out to be much simpler than I had imagined at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I crocheted ribbing and a row of loops along the sides. Then I crocheted a cord and laced it through the loops in a zigzag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cover slipped over the backrest like a sleeve. I pulled the cord tight and tucked the ends underneath the cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first the cover sat a little lumpy, but I expect it will gradually settle into place with use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Heegeldatud<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Toolikatte<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first one is finished<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first chair is now finished. Five more are waiting their turn. Once all six are done, the wooden parts will be restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only then can this project truly be called finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Uuendatud<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Uuendatud<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Uuendatud<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And if anyone asks how much a chair like this costs, I will say I got it from a second-hand shop for ten euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the price of this story… that can no longer be measured in euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bim<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I look at the finished chair and think…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes one phone call is enough to start a project that teaches more than you ever expected at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you ask whether I would do all of it again…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…I probably would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Vana<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Uuendatud<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"Vana<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Uuendatud<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The plan: all six finished by Christmas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the moment, three and a half chair covers are finished. Yes, half \u2013 one chair has its seat cover, while the backrest is still waiting its turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan is to finish all six by Christmas. Since plans tend to move faster than real life, Pits, Plaan and Pets made a little animation showing how the story will hopefully end. The animation has already reached winter and Christmas; I am still only halfway there with the crochet hook. \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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