How to make child hooded towel

As my son gets older, and taller, I started to realize that all those cute baby towels with the hoods you somehow collect are WAY too small. His little butt hangs out and he chants “very cold, very cold” when he is drying off from his nightly tubby.

Recently I was at a craft fair and they had big hooded towels. Adult sized towels with hoods! Genius!  I bought two of them paying about $12 a piece. They work perfectly for him, as now he can stay completely wrapped up and warm after the tub. So, of course I started examining the towels and thinking, “I could make these!”

So when I saw a towel sale going on at Kohls I took on this new project. Here’s how to make a child hooded towel.

1.  Each “hoodie towel” requires 1 big towel and 2 washcloths.  You could buy new or use old ones if you have lots of extra towels and washcloths.

2. Pin the two washcloths together on 2 adjoining sides (like an “L”).

3. Use your sewing machine to sew the washcloths together. I did this twice to have extra strength. I used a plain old zig-zag stitch.

4. Take the big towel and determine which side you want as the inside of the towel and lay that face down of the floor.

5. Measure and find the center of the big towel. Mark this with a pin.

6. Take the sewn together washcloths and fold it into a triangle so the 2 sewn sides are in the middle, touching, like below.

7. Use the pin in the middle of your big towel to determine placement and pin the closest side of  the washcloths onto the big towel.

8. Carefully sew the washcloth piece onto the big towel, making sure  that the outer parts of the hood do not get attached by accident. I also did this twice over for extra strength.

9. Try on your toddler or give as a gift!

The whole towel only took about 15-20

minutes to make. And with the sale at Kohls, only about$3.50. NICE!