Hooded Towel Tutorial

  I am excited to tell you that this is probably the easiest project I have done so far.  And I am also happy to tell you that I did it twice so you will only have to do it once!  This hooded towel is for a toddler and made from one regular size bath towel and one hand towel.  You will only use half of the hand towel so if you are buying these items you may want to buy 2 bath towels along with one hand towel to make 2 projects.  Here are my towels:  Already had the bath and bought the hand towel for 3$ at the store next door. 


Start by cutting the hand towel in half.  (Hold it as if it were hanging on a towel rack and cut at top) Once you have done that, fold it in half lengthwise and measure 6 in. in to make your "arc" shaped cut.

Now sew only what you just cut.  I suggest lining up the edges, pinning, and sewing from top to bottom seam.  Now you have your hood.

Now you will pin the hood to the towel at the center of towel and bottom of the seam you just sewed.

Then you will pin the sides to the top edge of towel.  You will have to move the towel after pinning one side in order to make the hood reach the other side.  This is what makes the towel wrap around your little one!

Here it is all pinned and ready to sew. I turned mine inside out to sew and used a tight zig zag stitch, but I don't think it really matters... Here it is all finished up!

Now I will show you the first one I made and you can see the lesson I learned:

The one on the left is the first one and the hood is too big for a child because I did not measure 6 in. from edge when cutting my arc.  If you wanted to make this project for an adult you could measure in farther, but you would also want to make the hood longer (not cut towel in half, but just some off one end).  The one on the right is success and we will use it after bath tonight!  I plan on making more and thinking of ways to embellish them.  Maybe a yellow with a Duck face?  Name on the back?  And the great thing about this is that you can make the towels ahead of time and then personalize them whenever you want.
*Note: It was actually very easy to fix my first towel.  It is actually the one Peanut is wearing in the first picture.  I just used a seam ripper and ripped a few inches off each side and cut the hood shorter, then folded the edge over and sewed.  Two great hooded towels for my Peanut for 3$!