New Padded Seat for an Old Pram

The state of a super well-used lightweight pram which is about 13-15 years old.

As we love it soOoo much and SC refuses to change it... due to the following reasons: 

1) it is lightweight and super convenience for outing, 

2) we may require the use of a stroller when outing with Bomber for just another 1 or 2 years more (no point buying another new stroller);

3) the frame and wheels are in proper condition.

So, I had an idea to re-learn sewing and make a personalized padded seat.

With the help of Yvette through email and Rosie through hands-on, I had just sewn a padded seat cover for the pram. [btw, HY chose the vibrant colour of the fabric] 

Both Yvette and Rosie are wonderful ladies. Yvette is very kind, she replied me a long email from what model (of sewing machine) to get as a start to where to head to for lesson. I will definitely fail this task without her kindness. She recommended Rosie if I wanted to start an open-lesson plan. Rosie is the distributor of Bernina in Singapore. She was very patience in guiding me. She advised on the design and she was flexible on the time of the lesson (clumsy hands of mine caused a pro-longed hours of learning). We had a good chat over the lesson. Oh, she speaks Cantonese excellently. 

[Rosie's Place can be found here. She has a very good range of fabric to choose and buy.]

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I must confess, I didn't keep my promise on sewing until 2 years (or coming to 3 years) later. Well, I was full of guilt for not proceeding further ever since the lesson with Pauline. The true is, I was not confident, on my clumsy hands when comes to thread and needles. I was afraid that getting the sewing machine, which may means getting a white elephant home. At the same time, I have too little time in handling too many things between kids and work. Or I should say, I'm bad in time management. 

Completing that padded seat cover marvels me a lot. 

The new padded seat cover attracted Adelene, little Bomber's babysitter. She has a same old pram like mine, which pretty much same torn apart of the padded seat. She still using it, for those babies under her care. But, I can't find a time to shop, measure and sew until our return from HK trip (will blog about it later).

It is very much work-in-progress at the moment. 

Anyway, If you have same model of Combi Stroller and have the same problem as ours, I don't mind to work on 3rd piece. Seriously. Just leave a comment here:).

Good Day.