Car Seat Canopy

It’s been a while since I’ve posted.  I’ve been busy….getting big.  Lol.  My pregnancy has been progressing and I’m starting to slow down, huff and puff with every step I take, and eat like I have a bottomless pit. Yay…so fun!

Well, one of my projects that I put on the back burner, but wanted to make before Baby #2 gets here is a Car Seat Canopy since she’ll be born in the WI winter.  I remember with Lydia, we had to drop her off every cold morning and pick her up every cold evening so we just threw a thick baby blanket over the car seat to help keep her warm.  It worked for its purpose, but why not make a cozy canopy this time since I have the sewing itch? 

Last Fall, I had made my niece a canopy with a cotton outer and a minky inner piece that just drapped over the car seat and my cousin used it until it was warm enough not to use anymore (I love to see when my gifts are constantly used!)  She said that it helped keep it dark for when Baby Leila was still snoozing in the car seat and it did help with the warmth, but one flaw I did notice was that when it was windy, it kept flying around!  Who wants to deal with that right? 

So this time around for Baby, I added elastic all around to make it stay snug to the car seat.  No more flying!  I also used a cotton outer piece, but instead of minky for the inner, I used fleece fabric just for added thickness and warmth.  I hope she loves it!  I was going to add a peekaboo window, but now looking at it, I like the way it is now and the canopy is fairly easy to lift up and sneak a peek at baby or pull up and around without disturbing her. It didn’t take me as long as I thought it would to make it either (especially because it was a prototype kind of sewing with the elastic).  Num Num!