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We Got Bored and Tufted Wrist Rests for Our Keyboards

Not everything has to live on the floor. Sometimes it's a tiny creature guarding your keyboard.

Close-up of a hand resting on a colourful tufted wrist rest while using a laptop, with a second tufted mat holding a mug and bottle nearby

The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone

Here's the thing nobody tells you about running a tufting studio: you start tufting everything.

A quiet afternoon, some leftover yarn, and suddenly the whole team is making wrist rests for our keyboards. Little tufted strips that sit in front of your laptop so your wrists have somewhere soft to land. Completely unnecessary. Obviously we made loads.

So what even is a tufted wrist rest

It's a tiny rug for your desk, basically. A long little cushion of yarn that lives in front of your keyboard and saves your wrists from the cold hard edge of a laptop.

Ours turned into miniature characters because we can't help ourselves. A red and blue thing on peach. A grumpy green face on yellow. A very long giraffe. Same guns, same yarn, just shrunk down to desk size.

Why bother making something this small

Honestly? Because small tufting is stupidly satisfying.

You get all the good bits of making a rug, choosing colours, watching the design fill in, that first run of the gun, but it's done in a fraction of the time. No commitment. Just a quick hit of "oh, I made a little guy."

And it's the perfect format for a bold character. Tiny canvas, one strong idea, go. Some of our favourite designs have come out of these little experiments, not the big planned pieces.

If you're new to tufting, small is also where the confidence lives. You finish, you feel it, you immediately want to make another. That's the whole loop.

Tufted in cheekyarn, like everything else

These are made in cheekyarn, our own recycled yarn, in the same 115 colours we keep on the shelf for workshops. The acid yellows, the hot pink, the deep forest green. The good stuff. All recycled, all the same cones you'd be pulling from on the day.

Tufting really isn't just floor rugs

This is the bit we want people to get. A tuft can be a floor rug, sure, but it can also be a wall piece, a bag, a coaster, a mug mat, a wonky little creature for your desk. The gun doesn't care how big it is. The technique's the same. The scale is yours to mess with.

Most people come in and make a proper 40x40cm or 55x55cm rug, which is exactly right for a first go. But once you've got the gun figured out, the rules kind of disappear. Little character pieces like these are well within reach, and honestly they're some of the most fun to make.