How to make an easy hooded towel
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Hi there mommies! My name is Megan Nielsen and I write DIYmaternity.com. I’m so excited to be sharing with you a tutorial for my favourite hooded towel.
If there’s one thing we can’t live without in our family it’s hooded towels. But unfortunately after our first child was born we very quickly realised how inadequate all the hooded towels we’d been given were. They were generally too thin to absorb anything, and and were so small they only really worked for very new born babies. That’s when i came up with this really easy and really large hooded towel! This style of towel has worked for both our kids from newborn right into toddler hood – we quite literally, could not live without them!
Materials
- A standard size bath towel (the kind you would use for an adult – you may even have an extra lying around!)
- A small face towel (you know, that smaller square towel that you never use but sits in the linen cupboard? – or is that just me? hehe)
Instructions
- Start with the face towel. Fold the top edge down by a few inches
- Fold the corners in towards the centre. Pin and then sew along the edge to secure. This is the “hood”!
- Lay your bath towel flat, and pleat it along one edge. Pin in place
- Place your hood under the pleats so that they overlap each other by about a 1/2″. Pin in place and then sew along the edge to secure.
- And then make a bunch more
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Tags: baby, bath, easy, hooded towel, toddler
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Nice tute! My cousin made me two of them for me when my DD was born, and she embroidered her name on one of them. They are so fast, this is the perfect “oops, is that baby shower really THIS Sunday?” kind of projects, too! I really loved them, and they have long outlasted the tiny, thin, newborn ones. For a little extra, you could add fleece animal decorations – dog or cat or bunny ears, or sew on appliques to make bees or ladybugs or a dinosaur stegosaurus rack across the hood (whatever those zigzagy things the stegosaurus has).
i cant wait to make one for my baby
I made 4 of these, they are great! I just left the corners of the washrag up like ‘ears’ on the hood, and I stitched the corners/ears closed to prevent lint build up, they are easy and great. I can’t wait to make more for a shower gift!
I can’t believe how EASY this was! Making my second, I stiched diagonally along the folds instead of stitching along the edge and cut off the excess. I feel like it make the hoodie a little more finished and less diy-ish. Thanks for such a great idea. As instructed, I will be making a bunch more.
Ann, thanks for the ideas! I love the idea of adding ears. Brittney – good luck! Dani & Katie – I’m glad you found them easy to make. Many thanks goes to Megan for guest posting this fantastic tutorial!
I saw your idea and decided to add my own touch to it and I just have to share it. For the hood, instead of folding the corners toward the center, I did a little diagonal gather where the fold would have been and created cat ears and then decorated the hood with eyes, a nose and whiskers. It looks so cute!
Thanks for the idea!!