DIY Waterproof Back Seat Covers

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Protect your backseat from all the wet and dirt that a road trip has to throw at it this summer with these DIY Seat Covers.

It’s summer, which means road trip time. You probably know that we love to camp, which means lots of weekends away with the kids and dog. We have two long Midwest road trips planned this summer. Last month we camped along the Upper Mississippi River and we are leaving next week to circle Lake Michigan. Camping is an outdoor lifestyle, so we have to deal with rain and dirt and everything that results from them. I decided to make waterproof removable seat covers to protect the leather seats in our car.

DIY Waterproof Seat Covers Sewing Tutorial

Supplies

measuring tape
beach towels
fleece fabric
vinyl table cover
grosgrain ribbon
double fold bias tape
scissors
serger and sewing machine

Directions

Measure the seat. I just laid the beach towel I picked for this project across the seat and saw that it was wide enough, so I used that as my guide.
Prewash the towels and fleece.
Pin the right sides of the towels together along one long edge.
Stitch the towels together along that line.
Using a large table or the floor, lay out the table cover with the plastic side down.
Lay the fleece out on top of the table cover.
Lay the towels on top of the fleece with the right side facing up.
Pin the layers together.
Cut the fleece and vinyl to match the size of your towel.

Serge the outside edges of your fabric sandwich, making sure to catch all layers.
Lay the cover over the backseat.
Mark the placement of the ribbons to tie around the headrests.
Cut two pieces of ribbon for each headrest and stitch them in place along the top of the cover. I cut each ribbon about 15″ long.
Tie the seat cover in place around the headrests and mark holes for the seat belts.
If you have a middle shoulder belt you need to make a verticle slit for it to go through that reaches the hole where the seat belts clip in. I serged the edges of my slit.
Cut the holes for the seat belts.
Finish off the edges of the seat belt holes with double bias tape.
Create a closure for the middle shoulder belt slit by sewing 12″ strips of ribbon on each side to tie together. I added 4 ties.
Put in seat cover in place.
The cover is machine washable but please line dry.

I love how the seat covers turned out. I made this with the same tie-dye beach towels that I used for the front seat cover tutorial. The bright colors really pop against the black interior.

Dog Seat Covers

These seat covers will protect the seats from wet bathing suits or dirty pets. Perfect for a day at the pool, beach, or a long road trip.

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Are you taking a road trip this summer? Where are you going?