Because of subsidence of the ground (I don't know when it happened, it was before I moved in) there is a massive gap between the kitchen floor and the bottom of the door and on really cold nights, you can feel the cold air coming through. So I decided to make a draft excluder to try keep the cold out.
If you want to make your own this is how I made mine.
- 4mm knitting needles (size 8)
- odd balls of wool in the colours of your choice - I used cream, white brown and red as those are the colours in the room
- stuffing - I used rags left over from tshirts I made into cushion covers. You could use old clothing and cut into pieces for stuffing.
- Wool sewing needle - if you don't have one, use a large strong sewing needle.
Measure the bottom edge of your door and make the length of your draft excluder a inch or two longer than the door measurement. My excluder is 33 inches.
Cast on 50 stitches and knit in stripes. I alternated between garter stitch and stocking stitch on each stripe, so a cream stripe is all garter stitch then the red stripe is stocking stitch and so on.
When your draft excluder is the length you want, cast off and join the edges using blanket stitch using the wool needle and fill it with the choice of your filling as you go along.
this link shows you how to do a blanket stitch http://www.cherrymenlove.com/crafts-how-tos/2009/11/how-to-sew-blanket-stitch.html
