Simple reversible car seat strap covers {a tutorial}

My sweet little niece told me “I need more comfort when I fall asleep in my car seat” {because clearly, all those rolls aren’t quite enough padding}. Ok, well really her mama told me, but I certainly couldn’t turn down such a request so I made her some of these.

These car seat strap covers are completely reversible and they have a bit of padding to make them extra comfy. I made sure to prewash the fabrics so they can be machine washed and air dried with no worries because we all know babies are messy little bundles of sunshine.
 
Most strap covers I’ve seen use bias tape as a binding, but since I can never seem to make that stuff look right, I came up with this simple yet equally cute version. It took me longer to pick out the fabric and cut it than to sew them so this is a great beginner project.

For each strap cover you will need 2 pieces of fabric cut to 6” x 6” and one piece of batting  cut to 6” x 6” {I used a warm and natural batting, but any would work}. So for a set of strap covers you will have 2 batting squares and 4 fabric squares.

You will also need about 3” of sew on velcro for each cover. 

I rounded the corners of my squares by tracing a cup and cut all 3 pieces at one time so they were identical.  You don’t have to make the corners rounded, it’s your choice.

You will lay down your batting first, the first piece of fabric right side up and the second one right side down.

Pin together and sew all the way around using a 1/4” seam allowance leaving a 3 inch opening on one side so you can turn it right side out.   My double pins denote my starting and stopping points.

Clip each corner if using rounded corners or trim the tip off each corner if using a square corner, but make sure not to cut into your stitching.

Turn right side out, putting the batting to the middle. Push each corner out nicely and iron the entire piece. Iron each opening to the inside as shown above.

Using a 1/4” seam allowance top stitch all the way around each piece.

Now cut 2 pieces of velcro each about 1.5” long.  Place them as shown above and stitch in place using a 1/4” seam allowance. The fuzzy side of the velcro pieces will go on one side of the cover and the loop side of the velcro will go on the opposite side and end of the cover.

Now make one more and you have a set of reversible car seat strap covers to keep your baby’s noggin all comfy cozy in his/her car seat.

These measurements are approximate. Please measure the length of strap between the top of the strap and where the chest clip sits on the child’s chest {at arm pit height}. It is very important that these strap covers not push the chest clip to an unsafe level. Please adjust the length of the strap covers accordingly.

Now go make some babies a little more comfy.

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