How to Make a Hooded Bath Towel for a Baby
Make a collection of hooded bath towels for your new baby in colors that coordinate with your nursery's color scheme. Buy a soft cotton terry fabric on sale and make the towels for significantly less than store bought equivalents. If your own children have outgrown the baby stage, you also can make the hooded towels as gifts for a new mother at a baby shower and embellish the towels by hand embroidering the baby's date of birth or due date.
Things You'll Need
- Cotton terry fabric (about 1 yard)
- Sewing needle
- Thread
- Dinner plate
- Double layer bias binding tape
- Baby-themed iron-on appliqué patch
Instructions
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Lay your cotton terry fabric on your working surface. Draw a 36-inch square on your fabric and cut out the shape.
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Make a template for the hood. Smooth out the square, measure 7 inches inward from one corner of the square and fold the fabric here to make a triangle. Place a piece of transparent paper over top of the triangle and trace the triangle.
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Cut out the template, place it on top of more cotton terry fabric and cut out the triangle for the towel's hood.
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Smooth the square back in its original shape and place the fabric triangle over the top of one corner. Pin the triangle to the square and sew the outer edges of the triangle to the outer edges of the square.
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Place a large dinner plate over the top of the corners of the square and draw a rounded edge for each corner. Cut the excess fabric beyond the rounded corner. Sew the two layers of the square and triangle back together again where the fabric was cut.
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Add a contrast border to the bath towel. Measure the perimeter of the towel. Cut a piece of double-layer bias binding tape to this length plus about 1/2 inch.
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Slide the edge of the towel in between the layers of the tape all the way around the towel. Pin the binding tape in place. Sew the binding tape to the towel with a straight stitch on the front and back of the towel.
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Measure the width of the towel's hood. Cut a piece of the binding tape to this length and slide the unfinished edge of the towel's hood into the fold. Pin it and sew it in place with a straight stitch on the front and back.
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Lay a baby-themed iron-on appliqué patch in the center of the hood. Iron on the patch according to the manufacturer's instructions.
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