Britax, Redux — by Guest Mom Laurie Smithwick

My kids have recently outgrown their Britax Roundabout car seats, and I was perusing eBay the other day to see what the going rate was for used seats. Lo and behold, I came across this gem on eBay (it's a regular auction but it restarts itself each time it ends).

You send this woman (code name: stumblecurls) material of your choosing and she'll make seat covers for your Britax Roundabouts. I was so excited about it that I emailed her just to tell her how amazing I thought they were. I told her she should create an Etsy store!


Pink and black and lime pizzazz! With a ruffle!


Chenille! With pink and green bloopy circles!

It's not just the custom covers, it's the fact that YOU get to pick the fabric(s), that's what would appeal to me. Although I have to say, I think her samples are wonderful. A bit of digging revealed others doing this same sort of thing, but hers were far and away the best samples. One of the eBay pages started playing Stevie Wonder, "I Just Called to Say I Love You." And while it is nice to be loved on eBay, thanks, but Stumblecurls wins.

I brokered something of this nature a couple of years ago. We have a 4-ft-square glass square dining room table that I couldn't find tablecloths for. Even my mother searched and was unable to find any. So my good friend Jennifer (who is a whiz with a sewing machine. I am not.) went with me to the fabric store and we picked out fabrics for tablecloths. Two weeks later we had two tablecloths that not only fit, but which I had designed myself. All for the price of the fabric and telling Jennifer how much I love her.


It doesn't look as cute in the picture thanks to my cold flash, but it's covered with little fingertip-size orange flowers outlined in white, against a burgundy background. With a pale sage-y colored trim.

Crafty people are doing amazing things with fabric these days. All those wonky stuffed animals/monsters that are so popular, pillows, diaper bags, Britax seat covers. If you sew, what do you daydream about making for yourself? Or, if you don't sew, what would you want to have customized if Stumblecurls was your friend?