What do you guys think of this?

wendytthomas · Jul 5, 2008

http://stephanierenee.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/car-seat-cover/

She used the original cover and sewed a "new" cover right on it. It's the right cover and slots, it's flame retardant (once the top layer burns off). Is it one big patch sewn on, or an aftermarket cover?

For added bonus, name that seat! It's an Evenflo Discovery, isn't it?

Wendy

Shaunam · Jul 5, 2008

Well aside from the fact that I think the new cover is uglier? LOL

It still adds a layer of fabric underneath the child. Not a lot, but I see techs be wishy-washy over a thin receiving blanket under a child allergic to the car seat cover fabric.

Iron-on or sewn-on patches aren't usually under the child (judging by what I see here).

The top layer still isn't flame retardant even though it is underneath..I think it defeats the purpose.

I wouldn't ok it.

An Aurora · Jul 5, 2008

I think it's hideous and there are way cuter Snugrides out there.

It's an ugly cover for a nasty seat. Any ideas how old that is? The blue cover looks distinctly 90s to me.

tanyaandallie · Jul 5, 2008

Well, baby would burn up while the top layer burns off to get to the flame retardant layer underneath. I wouldn't do it or say it's ok.

BookMama · Jul 5, 2008

Well, I don't have any idea what seat it's on now, but the blue cover is from an Evenflo On-My-Way, circa 1999. We had one for DS, who was born in April 2001 - and it was a hand-me-down.

That is NOT the same seat, and she HAS modified the cover. There is no front adjustor on the original seat, so she cut out a spot for that. It was also a 3-point seat, so she cut out slots for the straps that go over the hips. And I can't imagine that the harness slots on the original seat line up exactly with the harness slots on whatever seat she has it on now.

An Aurora · Jul 5, 2008

BookMama said:
That is NOT the same seat, and she HAS modified the cover. There is no front adjustor on the original seat, so she cut out a spot for that. It was also a 3-point seat, so she cut out slots for the straps that go over the hips. And I can't imagine that the harness slots on the original seat line up exactly with the harness slots on whatever seat she has it on now.

It seems to me like she just sewed an extra layer on top of the existing one. I don't think she did any modifying.

BookMama · Jul 5, 2008

Well, at the very least, she made that big cut out in the front of the cover. And she HAD to have modified it at least somewhat to accomodate the 5-pt harness shown in her picture, since the original seat was a 3-pt.

And it's on the wrong seat.

tanyaandallie · Jul 5, 2008

Someone needs to send her this link.

http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=51032

If the cover that comes with the seat looks like this in a fire, imagine what her 100% cotton non flame retardant cover would look like in a fire.

Someone should send that link to everyone who makes aftermarket covers. So scary.

featherhead · Jul 5, 2008

If you click on the pic of the old cover, you will see that it must have been a 5 pt harness. You can see the slot for the crotch strap, and then you see two slots running the other direction, which would be for the straps over the legs. It also sounds like she may have taken the top layer off of the cover, and put a new layer on (which would still not be flame retardant). I could be wrong though. If that's the way she did it, at least there wouldn't be an extra layer under baby.

wendy1221 · Jul 5, 2008

I don't think either way that 1 layer of really thin quilting fabric is going to make the cover too thick. And I also think that if the car is on fire, having a fire retardant carseat cover isn't going to help all that much. What bothers me about the seat is that it looks really old, and is surely expired.

Stretchy Glue · Jul 5, 2008

The first thing that came to mind for me was the van in the thread I read this morning. Honesty, good old cotton would light up in flames instantly. That's just not good.:twocents:

Kat_Momof3 · Jul 5, 2008

Yes, that's one of the newer Evenflo Discovery seats (it has a 5-point harness... older ones had 3-pt)... you can tell by that front notch where it hoods into that silly part in the base)

Did you see the link at the bottom of related posts??

http://growingyourbaby.com/2007/08/14/car-seat-cover-for-your-rocker-baby-girl/

Kat_Momof3 · Jul 5, 2008

oh... and now that I noticed what the "original cover" looked like... what the heck... that's not what came on that discovery... cause that cover is ANCIENT.

canadiangie · Jul 6, 2008

I'm so confused about what she did.

Why would there be an OMW cover on a Discovery in the first place? How would that even fit?

Has anyone emailed her to tell her she has about 10 days to get a new seat?

(she's due on the 14th).

I can think of about 400 things I'd rather do at 9mos pg in the dead heat of summer that fuss with a car seat cover. For those that don't sew, taking a cover apart enough to re-insert a new top layer, hiding the hem, making sure the new harness slots line up, sewing the new harness slots onto/over the original ones, and actually doing a good job, isn't the easiest thing to do. It's nothing I'd want to take on. Not. Worth. It.

houseofboys · Jul 6, 2008

Stretchy Glue said:
The first thing that came to mind for me was the van in the thread I read this morning. Honesty, good old cotton would light up in flames instantly. That's just not good.:twocents:

But my kids wear cotton clothes everyday between themselves & their carseat covers... :shrug-shoulders: I guess I'm not seeing what that extra layer would hurt? That said, I wouldn't do it - too little sewing talent & too much work. Besides, what a great excuse to buy a new seat.

BookMama · Jul 6, 2008

Kat_Momof3 said:
oh... and now that I noticed what the "original cover" looked like... what the heck... that's not what came on that discovery... cause that cover is ANCIENT.

That's what I'm sayin'!

Plus there's the fact that this seat is almost surely second hand rather than just from an older child of this woman. I read a couple of her other baby-related posts, and this is her first child.

Stretchy Glue · Jul 6, 2008

houseofboys said:
But my kids wear cotton clothes everyday between themselves & their carseat covers... :shrug-shoulders: I guess I'm not seeing what that extra layer would hurt? That said, I wouldn't do it - too little sewing talent & too much work. Besides, what a great excuse to buy a new seat.

In the case of Lilsid's van on the 4th, her interior melted intstead of going up into flames because of the fire retardancy. Her Marathon covers were slightly scorched instead of burned to a crisp. A cotton cover like the one in question would have ignited, and caught her van on fire instead of the fire next to her melting things.

I don't worry about the clothes on my dd because I bet most car fires happen after you've stopped, and as a poster in the thread about the van said when hers caught on fire on the freeway, the flames weren't noticable until after she had stopped. You would have time to get yourself and one or two kids out before there was any real danger of the car being engulfed.

brightredmtn · Jul 6, 2008

So why has no one left her a comment on the blog?

BookMama · Jul 6, 2008

brightredmtn said:
So why has no one left her a comment on the blog?

I will in a little while. I have a WordPress blog and often post about car seats, so it won't seem odd that I stumbled across hers.

ETA: And, um, duh! If that IS a Discovery, how about the recall?!

LISmama810 · Jul 6, 2008

Kat_Momof3 said:
Did you see the link at the bottom of related posts??

http://growingyourbaby.com/2007/08/14/car-seat-cover-for-your-rocker-baby-girl/

The third comment on that is awesome! Is that one of you?

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