Bathroom Made Cozier
When Sarah Knouse moved into her “dreary, for which it was designed, and displayed in a separate
cookie-cutter” apartment, the 24-year-old art school location while still keeping its form.”
graduate was determined to spruce it up, “particularly Thankfully, Knouse wasn’t alone in her mission.
my bleak and shabby bathroom.” As a collector of At her “cozy parties,” which offered free food including
old crafting magazines, Knouse was inspired by the 40 pounds of ice cream “to those who proved worthy,”
“strange extended family of cozies” that were big in many friends — and strangers — helped Knouse
the 70s, and decided to cozy up her bathroom. stitch yarn through thousands of tiny plastic squares,
“The cozy is made of plastic netting that has been which “became a painfully slow and tedious marathon.”
soldered together to fit the contours of my bathroom Although she now considers her project “an amaz-and all of its fixtures,” Knouse explains. “Colorful yarn ing feat of craft,” she says she doesn’t recommend
has been woven through the netting to create an ultra- the project to anyone, ever. “It was, for the most part,
large cozy, similar to the tissue-box cozies I grew up an excruciatingly miserable and almost masochistic
with in my home. And like a traditional tissue-box cozy, experience that, looking back, I can laugh at.”
the bathroom cozy can be removed from the space —Carla Sinclair
