16 pieces
Onto a car seat
Elastic hems, front zips, and openings built to fit over the outer shell.
What goes on a car seat, and what does not
Read this before you look at anything we sew. In a vehicle the rule is short: nothing we make, and nothing anyone else makes, belongs between your child and the harness.
Over the outside, after the buckle
- A cover that drapes over the top of the carrier, the way a shower cap sits over a bowl. It touches the shell and the canopy, and nothing that holds your child.
- An open back, so you can lift the flap, tighten the straps against your child, and drop the flap again.
- A blanket laid on top once the harness is done up. It comes off in one motion if the car gets warm.
- Anything that ends up over the face comes off before you drive. That is not a thing to judge by feel from the front seat.
Under your child, never
- A sleeping bag style cover with a back panel. That panel sits between the shell and your child, it squashes flat under load, and the harness you tightened is then loose.
- Padding, inserts or head supports that did not come in the box with the seat.
- A puffy coat, which does the same thing as padding. Off, buckle, then the coat back over the top.
- Strap covers and pads threaded onto the webbing from somewhere else.
One more thing, said plainly. The federal standard for child seats in the US, FMVSS 213, tests the seat. It does not cover accessories, so nobody selling an accessory can honestly say it was crash tested with your seat, because that test does not exist. Some seat makers also write in the manual that a third party cover ends the warranty. The manual that came with your seat outranks any shop, including us.
Sorted another way
The same pieces, filed by what they are rather than where they go.