Since the weather has been so blah lately, there hasn't been many outings. Last week I was actually able to sew a few things on my list of things I want to sew. Of course, my list grows faster than I can get things done. However, I was really pleased with my projects last week. The first, I'll post later as it's a birthday gift for someone and I'll wait until she gets it. The second is a curtain for our front door. It's waiting on me to go to the store and buy sash rods so it I can hang it and it can model for pictures. That leaves me with the third project...re-purposing our old car seat cover. I can even call it up-cycling.
This poor car seat has been through a lot. I actually inherited it from my sister, so Bliss and Zade have both used it along with Kallie or Evie, my nieces. It is still in good condition...nothing is falling apart, it's just stained.
I started by washing it and hanging to dry. The on to disassembling it. I've seen where some people have just made a removable cover, but I was afraid I would like the way that looked, so I just went for completely recovering it. I recovered it because I wanted to use the cushiony foam. So, I used my trusty seam ripper and went to town.
It took like five minutes to take apart. Then I cut out material for all the pieces. I only used about a yard. And if I didn't use a directional pattern, then I could've used less. But I had found this fabric and fell in love with it. I wanted it for the kitchen, but decided that wasn't the look I was going for in there. Anyway, I cut out my material and some interfacing which served several purposes....1) I didn't want to see that ugly plaid through my cute fabric and 2) it helped the fabrics stay together somewhat.
Then, I sewed the fabric to the separate pieces just following the old seam lines. I then zigzagged around the strap openings. I sewed all pieces together, again by just following the old seam lines. I cut out the outer side panels with a coordinating fabric and sewed them on adding elastic to the outer edge to help hold it on.
The hard part came when I had to reassemble the seat. I had taken it apart months ago and couldn't quite remember how everything went. So after about half and hour I got it figured out.
I love how it turned out. I was pretty nervous that it would look pretty crappy, but I like it. Et voila Miss Isla has a custom car seat.
BTW...I'm not liking this new picture thingy with blogger.

