How to make child hoodie towel
January 10, 2009 by Lisa Beth
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 hoodie towels. An adult sized hoodie towel! 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 hoodie towel.
Hoodie Towel – step by step instructions
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”).
Use two washcloths of the same size
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!
A Hoodie Towel big enough for my growing toddler!
The whole towel only took about 15-20 minutes to make. And with the sale at Kohls, each hoodie towel costs only about$3.50.
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Linda on Wed, 9th Dec 2009 8:57 pm
This is GREAT! Buying a hooded towel from a child over a certain height costs about $35. I had seen a instructions for making one using a hand towel cut in half for the hood, but it did not have a real finished look. The two wash cloths are perfect! To personalize the “hoodie” appliques could be added to plain colored towels. THANKS!
Harriet on Sun, 18th Dec 2011 7:29 pm
Thank you! Last year I made my 4 yr old granddaughter a hooded blanket based on the idea of a square on a diagonal with a triangle attached to one corner. In black fuzzy fabric. Her 25 yr old father has been jealous all year long, so I bought 2 1/2 yds of 60″ wide black fuzzy fabric and have been trying like the dickens to figure out how to put a hood on it w/o buying a $10 Simplicity pattern for a Sith robe then buying 5-7 yds of fabric plus all the time to put the sucker together. THIS solves my problem! Thank you again!