Make Your Own Baby Car Seat Cover

by DoItYourself Staff

what you'll need

Measuring tape
Transparent paper
Scissor
Pencil
Sewing machine
Elastic band
Safety pin

You can make a baby car seat cover to protect your carseat and to personalize it. While this can be a time-consuming project, the end product is both functional and inexpensive. Follow the simple steps below.

Step 1 – Measurements

Measure your car seat from top to bottom and then from left to right. Add an extra 10 inches to both set of measurements.

Step 2 – Buying the Fabric

Decide on the fabric that you wish to buy for the baby car seat cover. Cotton would be the safest best at it is easy to maintain and does not cause any skin irritation or rash. Buy the fabric according to your measurements, but make sure to double the material.

Step 3 – Tracing the Pattern

In this step, you need to ascertain the shape or pattern that you want your baby car seat cover to take. Use a transparent paper and mark out the position according to the measurement that you had taken earlier. Add 5 inches to all the sides.

Step 4 – Connecting the Marks

Now connect the marks in a circle. Use a pencil to draw a circle in a way that it connects all the marks made in Step 3. This will give you the pattern for your baby car seat.

Step 5 – Dealing with the Fabric

Now spread out your fabric on your work station. Find one end of the fabric and fold the entire thing in half. Use pins to hold the ends together.

Step 6 – Cutting for Pattern

After folding in half, place the transparent pattern paper on the fabric. Pin them together, and use scissors to cut the fabric according to your pattern. Now remove the pins and take off the paper from the fabric.

Step 7 – Prepping the Fabric

In this step, you need to turn around the two pieces of fabric. You will find that the fabric's outer edges are touching. Ascertain that the sides are even. Now pin the two pieces of fabric together.

Step 8 – Sewing

Use a sewing machine to run stitches around ¾ of the cover. Now turn the cover so that the correct side is shown. Make sure to leave a 1-inch hole, and then continue sewing the cover up.

Step 9 – Introducing Seams

In this step, you need to introduce seams on the cover. Mark a 1-inch gap all around the cover. Pin, and then continue to sew the seam, leaving the 1-inch gap open.

Step 10 – Introducing the Elastic

Snake the elastic into the seam through the 1-inch gap that you left in Step 9. Attach a safety pin to one end of the elastic and shimmy it though the seam. When the elastic is pulled around the cover casing, remove the safety pin and attach fastening clips onto the edges.