Car Seat Recover Before

Ok, so it has been 5 days since my last post. My plan to post everyday seriously went out the window this time! I have so much I could blog about and just didn't feel like writing anything so I didn't. Anyway, my newest project that I am working on is recovering the carseat I used for G. By the time my lil princess is out of it, it will have about a year before the seat itself expires so I figured I might as well get more use out of it before then, but I didn't want a boy pattern for my one and only girl.

So, I got so far as taking the cover apart. And I pinned it to the new material as a pattern and cut the new material out and got it all sewn together, but now, I am questioning my material choice. So back to the store I go to buy some different material. After I take it all apart again I will be ready to try again, I will post more pictures as I do the next steps.

seat belt pillow tutorial

I origionally found the seat belt pillow on pinterest and pinned it, but there was no tutorial, only a link for where to buy one...me and the kids were going with mom on our road trip and I hated seeing S's head all cocked to the side and me driving not being able to do anything about it, so I thought the pillow was perfect. I made S one with spiderman material, since that is what he likes, his turned out a little different than this. This one I made for my mom since she is going on another road trip to my cousins wedding. I made it in less than an hour.

 Supplies:

batting

fabric

velcro

sewing machine

thread

scissors

The first thing I did was cut 4 pieces of fabric the same size. I did not measure how big or how wide, I just cut how long I thought would be good and how wide I thought would be good once all my stitching was done.

Then I double layered the batting and cut it smaller than the fabric. I wanted the pillow to be thicker than one layer of batting, but not thicker than two layers.

I put 2 pieces of fabric together and stiched up the length of them. Then I sticked down the side, but not all the way to the end, I left a little bit unsewed. Do this to the other pieces of fabric as well.

Turn the material rightside out so the stitches can't be seen. Take one piece of velcro and place it near the seam that you stitched lengthwise. I stitched it down, over, down and over to make a long rectangle. Do this on the other piece of material as well. Make sure not to sew it both sides of the material so that you can place the batting inside once you are done.

Place the batting inside and turn the piece of fabric under and then stitch down lengthwise close to the edge of the fabric. Do this to both peices.

Place both pieces together like shown in the picture and stitch down.

Still stitching down. Cut the excess fabric and turn it rightside out.

Wa-La!