This is the day the stroller came into our lives - Lily's first birthday. Maybe someday I will do a post on her mini-snowflake princess party. This is Lily walking with it even before she could walk - so cute. As you can see, it was an immediate hit.
Since it has been so well-loved, it has had a hard life at our house. Truly. And, since my husband broke the rules that are explicitly printed on the side of the stroller and pushed Lily in it, the straps on the top eventually broke, which resulted in Lily asking me to "fix it" all the time when she used it. And I would re-ghetto rig it to sort of work. I decided it was time for a makeover, and I went and picked some cute new fabric for it. I could have reused the fabric on it, but I wanted more of a change.
I laid the old fabric over the new to trace the shape and size of the two pieces I would need to cut. (1/3 of a yard would be plenty)
Our kitty Francie thought that she would help.
I ended up with a bottom and a back that looked like this. (I realized as I was rereading this that I didn't mention the piece that folded up under the bottom to hook it to the stroller. Really, I just copied anything that was on the doll stroller to start with.)
I pinned cream-colored bias tape around the outside edge and sewed it on.
Then I realized that I had forgotten the straps, so I removed some the the stitches and tucked the straps under the bias tape and sewed it to secure them.
I sewed bias tape around the straight half of the bottom piece (not pictured), then I pinned the bias tape over the seam of the back piece and the bottom piece and sewed it all together.
Then I stitched a line straight across part of the bottom to make holes for the stroller bottom to be held up by. Does that make sense? Probably not - I basically just copied anything I saw on the original.
I decided to use some of the strapping from the old stroller to hold the new stroller up - so I ripped it off. Then I looped it and sewed it onto the top of the back, so that it was around the actual stroller.
And, after about 1 1/2 hours (not bad at all), I had a new stroller. When Lily got out from her "nap," she was delighted. Lambie and Kiki immediately got a new ride.