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Tutorial: Stretchy car seat cover

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Tutorial: Stretchy car seat cover

Tutorial: Stretchy car seat cover

Kate from See Kate Sew created this stretchy cover for her baby’s car seat.  It’s made from a knit fabric so it stretches to fit snugly around the car seat. It’s open at the top so you can peek in whenever you like.  It’s quick to make (less than 30 minutes!) and uses just 1 yard of knit fabric. It can also be used as a nursing cover or as a shopping cart cover (when baby is older). There are always sooo many things we have to carry around with our babies.  Any time we can reduce that, it’s a big plus in my book.

Click the link below for her tutorial showing how to make one:

Stretchy Car Seat Cover Pattern (Free!), by See Kate Sew

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  1. If you use the stretchy seat cover on a hot day it is as bad as leaving a dog in a car on a hot day even with a window open.

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  2. Have pattern for Stretchy Car Seat cover ready to go, but having trouble with matching lines and having it come out to the right size. Would like to know cut measurements for length and height so I can line up the pages correctly. Kate says cut off 1/2 inch but that isn’t helping me. Just need to know those measurements!

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    • This question is probably best asked at See Kate Sew, as she is the author or the pattern, but I’ll give it a whirl. If the pattern is not printing correctly, it could be a matter of scaling. Be sure that you have your print settings to not scale. The 1/2″ that she’s talking about is just around the edge of each page, which is standard on paper printed patterns. Home printers don’t print to the edge of the paper, so that part is always trimmed off. You should be able to see where that is by where the printed lines stop. If trimming and setting to print with no scaling doesn’t work, just match them up the best you can. Knit fabric is very forgiving, especially with small differences like you’d have with pattern lines not matching perfectly. The fabric is going to have to stretch to fit, so if you’re off by 1″ or so, it shouldn’t make much difference. Hope that helps! –Anne

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Sew a Pincushion for Pins, Needles, and Fabric Clips

It doesn’t matter whether you sew by hand or by machine, you need a pincushion.  You need a spot to parks pins and needles and keep them within easy reach for when you need them again.  There are a lot of styles of pincushion to choose from.  Some magnetic, some fabric.  Some cute, some purely functional.  This “little bit extra” pincushion has a spot to store all the different types of pins and needles you might need while sewing.  Polka Dot Chair has a free sewing pattern you can use to make one for yourself.

This handy little pincushion has a circular shape and is divided into sections to store different types of pins.  The bottom section is for your regular straight pins.  Just poke them in and they’re ready for when you need them.  The top has one section with a felt flap perfect for holding your sewing needles.  I don’t know about you but I don’t like mixing my hand sewing needles in with my pins on a pincushion.  It makes it hard to find the needle when I want it.  So having a separate section for the needles is a great idea.

This “little bit extra” pincushion also has a spot to hold a few fabric clips.  Fabric clips have become popular alternatives to a traditional straight pin.  They hold fabric pieces together without piercing the fabric, which is important when sewing leather, vinyl, or other materials that will show permanent holes from pins.

You can sew the “little bit extra” pincushion from large fabric scraps or small fabric cuts (fat eighth).  You probably already have all the supplies you need to sew one in your sewing supplies already.

Get the free pattern for this “little bit extra” pincushion over at Polka Dot Chair.

[photo credit: Polka Dot Chair]

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