Elephants And Chevron

Our family recently welcomed a new niece into the world.

The concept came from a tutorial over here: http://www.theribbonretreat.com/blog/car-seat-canopy-tutorial.html

She followed that tutorial pretty closely. The car seat needed to be measured first, front to back and side to side, to make sure that there would be enough fabric. She ended up needing a yard and a quarter front to back and 40" side to side which got her really good coverage.

Then came the part when she needed my help. We found an image that we liked and opened it in the Silhouette Studio software (the trace function is my bff). Then we altered it to fit what we were looking for and put her name into it (used the Lavanderia Sturdy font).

Because it is heat transfer vinyl, we needed to flip the image. Heat transfer vinyl needs to be cut differently than normal vinyl because it needs to be cut from the back side instead of the top side. So we mirrored the image.

We wanted the elephant and the hearts to be one color (Pink Stripflock heat transfer vinyl) and her name to be another color (Purple Glitter heat transfer vinyl). So we separated the two and cut them individually.