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Heres something that I did this week while on my holiday. My mother in law was kind enough to find me this Jeep Wagoneer double pram at the opshop where she volunteers, and it will make things easier when I'm carting around a baby and toddler next year. Its a pretty good pram in my opinion - while it kind of feels like a road train, it is light to lift, easy to fold and a breeze to manoeuvre.
Still, its a 2nd hand pram and I wanted to freshen it up a bit and make it feel like ours. I bought this spotty dotty fabric for pram liners before we knew we were having another girl, or else I'd have probably gone silly and bought something pink. I think the spots are a sensible choice though. The new liners freshen up the whole vehicle I think. I'm quite pleased.
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I was quite happy to find that the seats were already nicely padded with removable liners, so all I did was trace a template and make a pillowslip type covering with openings for the straps and velcro strips to keep the whole thing in place on the pram.
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As you can see, I made strap covers for the new baby too. The point of these pictures however is to show the difference in the strap openings. The first cover that I made, I just used a regular straight machined button hole, which looks ok and will do the job. I decided for the second cover to try a welt opening. Its a very basic welt without the pretty little lips like you'd do if you were being proper, but I"m happy with it because its my first welt opening and I did it only going off my memory of a couple of diagrams I'd seen about them previously. I think that the difference between the two is enormous!! The work involved is comparable in my opinion so I think that I will hone my welt skills for the future.
Good job the pram looks much nicer with your improvements and I like the dots sometimes pink everywhere can be a little overwhelming
ReplyDeletewell done mother for the opshop score, It does make the pram look less like a heavy duty off road car. I agree with Sarah pink can get a little gross to look at. Unless Addie is in it of coarse :P
ReplyDeleteSarah - yep I agree. I didn't even like pink at ALL before I had Addie, but I still don't want everything pink. Also, pink wouldn't have worked with the pram's existing colour scheme as well so dots are definitely a better choice.
ReplyDeleteKatie - nice hey? Addie looks cute in almost anything :)
my g/f just brought that pram and is really happy with it. I hope you get some good use out of it. The covers are gorgeous, I'm actually half way through making some for my stroller today :)
ReplyDeleteI've been using the pram to take Addie down the back of our block to visit the chooks every day. It handles so well, even if it is a road train! I hope you'll post pics of your new stroller covers?
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