Isn’t it interesting how a very simple math error can be just as horribly inconvenient, and make just as much of a mess, as a more complex error? Yes, well, welcome to my yesterday. Before realizing that I made such an error, I was cruising along quite nicely on Abigail’s backpack. See?

And then, spurred by a nagging feeling that had visited me before, I re-equated my equations. Again. Only this time, I remembered that last little step that had been forgot all the previous times, and I realized that by following the modified stripe pattern I had made, I was making my backpack twice as tall as I wanted it to be. This is both good news as well as bad news. The good news is that now I will most likely have enough yarn to finish, the bad news, obviously, is that I’m going to have to frog a bit. Not the whole thing, thankfully, but some of it.

To give my hands and my brain a little “cooling off” period, I turned my attention to a different project that really needs to be done, which is the recovering of my dining room chairs. I’ve had the fabric for a long time now, and a couple of days ago, I made it to the fabric store and picked up new foam padding and a heavy, clear vinyl. I am not a huge fan of plastic covered furniture, but at our current stage of parenthood, it is necessary. Particularly considering the type of fabric I used.

Here’s the “before” shot…

and here’s the “after”

Actually, it’s more like the “old chair” and the “new chair” because I only did two out of the four. I scrubbed them down, recovered them, and now they are all pretty. So, isn’t that fabric fabulous? It is crushed velvet that I bought off of eBay several months ago. It looks perfectly funky in my wildly colorful house. I love it!

In other creative news, the girls and I made a Lego christmas tree yesterday morning. Click the link if you’re interested.