stupid easy office chair cover

turn ^ one evil thigh flesh eating (free) executive vinyl office chair

into a thigh flesh friendly soft geeky office chair.

So, its summer, that means I wear shorts occasionally. The other day I was working on my massive research paper (the research paper that is my graduation ticket, roughly 10,000 words on distance education, properly cited in APA format) as I normally do these day. No, as I always do these days.

Anyway point being after sitting on my butt for several hours researching and writing I stood up.

Apparently I screamed, because my husband downstairs, and several rooms away--far enough to be past that magical sound gap no one can hear through between the living room and the kitchen-- heard and asked if I was ok.

I was astonished I wasn't bleeding. It felt like all of the skin on the back of my legs was ripped away.

So, I was thinking about taking a towel and placing it on the seat part of the chair, not pretty, but functional. This morning at the fabric store sale I decided to acquire some Trekke fleece and fix my chair.

1 yard of blanket fleece, cut in half. Some tucking and some duct tape:  tah--dah

Just dont ask to see the back

DIY no sew tote bag from t-shirt

This is the blog post I was going write. Fortunately I found the cable for my camera.

I found this cute zombie t-shirt at good will, and, well we like zombies at our house, so I figured this would be a great shirt to use for the project (that and it certainly wasn't going to fit any of us).

Step 1: Trim the sleeves off,  trim the bottom hem off, trim the collar out. I used a square shape.

Step 2: Stretch all the areas you cut so the edge rolls.

Step 3: Fringe the bottom of the shirt. I cut these about 1/4 inch to about 1/2 inch.

I cut my fringe a bit deep, since I didn't want the sponsors on my bag. Next time I won't make the fringe so long.

Step 4: Cut off the hem from one of the sleeves. Trim 4 strips about 1/2 inch wide.

Step 5: Trim the seem from the four strips, and stretch them so they roll.

Step 6: Use the strips to tie bows on the straps.

Step 7: Tie opposite fringes together. I used a basic double knot. Then tie the side-by-side fringes together. This makes a nice tight bottom with minimum holes (see next picture).

The inside of the bag, see tight holes.

Ta-da fringy zombie bag.

If you don't like all the fringe, even if it were cut shorter, you can tie the fringes together on the inside. Your bag would look sort of like this instead.