Car Seat Cover SAL
Car Seat Cover Sew Along: Week 6
Welcome to week six, our final week! This week we finish our car seat covers and wrap up this project. Thank you so much for following along and joining me, I can’t wait to see all of your seat covers! This week is a great week to jump in if you have an existing quilt you want to upcycle into covers. Check out week 1 for instructions on how to make a paper template and then jump back here for the rest. This week definitely involves some problem solving that will be unique to each car. I did my best...
Car Seat Cover Sew Along: Week 5
Welcome to week five of the Car Seat Cover Sew Along! This is an exciting one, because five weeks in, we’re finally quilting! This week is all about layering up your quilt sandwich and getting those layers quilted together. I’ll cover several ways to baste (sticking all the layers together), and I’ll share some tips for machine quilting on a home machine. Next week is our final week! We’ll cut out the covers and take them out to the car to figure out how to attach them. I can’t wait to get this project wrapped up! Basting: Getting Your Quilt...
Car Seat Cover Sew Along: Week 4
Welcome to week 4 of the Car Seat Cover Sew Along! This week we're turning our quilt blocks into the quilt top for the seat covers. It's a quick one. All we're doing is adding pieces around the blocks until the whole thing is wider and longer than our seat cover template. This should go pretty quick so this is a good week to get caught up if you’ve fallen behind. My Seat Cover Design I have my four blocks finished. They're from the Crystal Creek quilt by The Blanket Statement, and I'm so happy with how they turned out....
Car Seat Cover Sew Along: Week 3
Welcome to week three of the car seat cover sew along! I'm super excited because we actually get to start sewing this week. Hooray! Last week we got all of our cutting done, so hopefully by now all of your pieces are cut and ready to start piecing. This week we're focusing on getting your quarter inch seam dialed in, and I'll go over a few different ways to get one and how to test it. Then we'll talk pressing, marking lines for half right triangles, trimming those units (with some tips to speed things up), and web piecing the...
