How to Make a Shopping Cart Baby Cover
Shopping carts are one of many items contaminated with other people's germs, and we touch shopping cart handles, and all those germs, just about every time we go to the store. When a baby rides in a shopping cart, those germs can transfer to the hands and the mouth of the baby, potentially causing illness. You can prevent your baby from touching germs on a shopping cart, and provide some padding to that cold, metal ride, when you make a shopping cart baby cover. The baby sits on this device in the shopping cart, and it fans out to prevent your baby from touching the grocery cart.
Things You'll Need
- Polar fleece
- Scissors
- Sewing machine
- Thread
- Tape measure
- Needle
- Drawstring or elastic
Instructions
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Begin with two pieces of polar fleece. You need about 1½ yards of 45-inch wide fabric folded on top of itself so it creates a double layer of fabric.
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Cut out the leg openings through both layers of fabric so the top of the openings are about 12 to 15 inches from the edge of your shopping cart baby cover. Hem the openings on each fabric layer with a single-fold hem.
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Match up the leg openings, then sew both layers of fabric together. Leave about 1/2-inch unstitched in front of the leg openings.
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Turn your shopping cart baby cover inside out through the unstitched area in front of your leg openings. Sew that opening closed.
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Stitch around the outside of your shopping cart baby cover, about ¾-inch from the edge of the cover, to make a casing.
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Thread a drawstring or some elastic through your shopping cart baby cover casing. You can use this elastic or the drawstring to help secure the cover in the shopping cart.
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Tips & Warnings
This design also works as a high chair cover.
