Hello, hello! My apologies for my unintentional week off. We just returned from a week in the San Juan Islands, and I thought we'd have internet access in our vacation house. I had planned on blogging while we were there. But I do believe it was meant to be—I'm sure I enjoyed my vacation more and spent more time with my family with the computer off. Hubs and I spent our evenings sitting on the deck watching for orcas and doing jigsaw puzzles. It was absolutely fantastic.
And just as soon as I sort through my 600 photos, I'll share some with you. :)
But for today, I have those dining chair slipcovers I told you about at the beginning of the month. Little Mister thinks that he's ready to be done with his booster seat during meals. He's just about four and is ready to shed all signs of babyhood. I think he's still a little too short for the table, but so far it hasn't been a problem. I like that he's making decisions for himself.
I didn't have much to go on here. I winged it by looking at a few pictures and guessing. But I did make myself a pattern and measured very carefully. Shocking, I know. I wanted these to be done right the first time, because I didn't have time to redo them.
I taped together pages from an old magazine and cut a template of my chair seat. Then I used that to cut the seat fabric, and measured for the fabric rectangles that would make up the straight skirt. I pinned, sewed, pressed seams open, made some quick fabric ties. I finished two seat covers in about two hours, using just one yard of fabric.
And now my kids won't make my chairs so messy.
Hooray!
How was your week? What's new? What did I miss?
