Car Seat Cover SAL — Tutorial
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...
Car Seat Cover Sew Along: Week 2
Welcome to week two of the Car Seat Cover Sew Along! Week one we made a plan, picked our designs, and gathered fabric. hopefully by now everything is prewashed and ready to go! This week the goal is simple: get all your fabric cut! Bonus points if you start piecing, but cutting is the main event. The tricky part is that most of us aren't working straight from a quilt pattern. We're borrowing blocks, mixing things up, designing our own layouts. So before we can cut, we have to work backwards and build ourselves a cut list. Because everyone's project...
Car Seat Cover Sew Along: Week 1
Welcome to week one of our Car Seat Cover Sew Along! This week we'll cover three things: making a paper pattern piece for your car seat, designing your covers using a couple of online tools, and estimating the fabric and supplies you'll need to pull the whole project together. A quick note before we dive in: this is very much a "make it work" project. It doesn't need to be perfect — we're just aiming for something that looks cool, so don't put too much pressure on yourself as we go! This project is a great way to grow those...
