Pinterest Project: Hammock Seat Cover for the Pup

Pin It Needless to say, this blog has been neglected. I live very close to a beach town and so it seems that everything happens in the summer. Come the colder months, it seems almost like a ghost town! Thunderstorms made today an indoor day and I take advantage.

The seat cover on our love seat.  Photos with it used in the beach car would not have been very pretty. :-)

This is a project I completed about a month ago and inspired by a pin originally from the blog, excapes. Total cost of materials probably adds up to $40.  Now, I know there are less expensive hammock seat covers that can be purchased online (especially since I got my materials full price) but I went for this project anyway.  First of all, I was pretty excited to make it.  Then, the reviews for the less expensive ones online seem to consistently comment on the chemical smell.  Now my pup's hammock smells like Downy, just as he likes his bedding to be.

The bub checking out his seat cover.

I had followed most of the instructions. But since our puppy is going to be a bigger dog (he's nearly 50 pounds at 10 months) than the blogger's, I decided to use a stronger canvass fabric that I got from Amazon and make some reinforcements. This is not at all waterproof, but may be a little bit resistant to moisture due to the two thick canvass fabrics on top of each other. Our Cally gets nauseous in the car and the excessive drooling does not soak through (we're talking drool fangs here) .  I also believe that the hammock style has helped the pup relax in the car because he doesn't look like he has trouble balancing in the back seat.  He used to look so stressed and moved around so much when he could see the car floor. Although he still drools, he is now able to just sit calmly in the back seat. 

So here's the reinforcement that I was talking about:

I just cut extra fabric and sewed it onto the back of the handles.

So far, it's holding up and keeping the pup calm and the back seat relatively clean (except for the mess that us humans make!). This was a fun and definitely useful project.