Approximately 30 weeks ago (according to Pinterest), when I was 9 weeks pregnant, I found this little gem of a tutorial for a home made car seat cover for summer.
http://cally-cruze.blogspot.com/2009/10/infant-carseat-blanket.html
Benjamin was born in Minnesota so obviously we already have a winter cover, but I knew that this little Missouri baby was going to need some protection from the sun during those early months so I added it to my collection of "repins".
Last night Jeff was on call so I decided to spend my evening working on the cover for the baby and since I have a hard time sleeping these days (a problem which is magnified when Jeff's not home) I worked on it from start to finish. Needless to say it was a long, late night and my feet swelled up to the size of watermelons by the time I was done, but I finished.
The only difficulty I ran into was that the cover was a little to big on the larger end, so I just attached some ribbon and gathered up the extra material with it. I tried flipping the cover around but had the same issue no matter which direction it faced. I'm not sure why this happened. Perhaps our car seat is smaller than the once used in the tutorial, but it's a Chicco and I always think they look so much larger than every other brand of car seat. I don't mind the extra length though because when the babies feet start to hang over the edge they will still be covered.
Now it's just too bad that I can't find the inserts for the car seat ANYWHERE. I tore apart every box of Ben's old baby clothes looking for it and after 2 hours of looking I decided to call the customer service department at Chicco to order new inserts. When I found out the replacements would only cost $12 I wished I would have called before opening up all of that cardboard.
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