Ladybug stroller upgrade

We have bought a very nice stroller, a Baby Jogger City Mini and we are quite happy with it, however there were some things that asked for improvements. One of them was a padded insertion sit. Maybe they sell somewhere the original, but I did not have either time to look for it or extra money to buy it.

Instead I’ve sewn my own. I just made a paper pattern directly in the stroller, and then adjusted it a bit on a piece of muslin. I made a great finding of a nice red waterproof textile in the local textile shop (bough it by weight), also bought there a roll of foam rubber and in one day (night) I made the sit. It became much more convenient for my daughter and we still are using it.

From the rest of this textile I made a larger version of IKEA baby changing rubber support (it’s the white one on this picture) and two cotton covers for it (again a bargain, 4 m of nice cotton terry/stretch textile). Today we are still using it and I think it’ll survive till potty training time.

The next step in upgrading was a blanket cover and a little cushion cover. It’s all my own ideas. They both have zippers so it’s not a problem to wash them. The cover has also elastics and ribbons in order to tie it under the sit.

The textile is polyester, rather nice to touch. This set helped us a lot in spring, when the warm winter bag was too much and still rather chilly air did not allow sitting uncovered for a longer time.