Hooded towels

I've made baby towels before but my kids wanted bigger kid hooded towels.  The pattern I used before wouldn't work for bigger kids since it doubled up the hand towel that made the hood.  That made it way too small for their now school aged heads.  A little thinking and testing before I went to cutting and I came up with this idea.

What you'll need,
A bath towel
A hand towel
Pins
Scissors
Ruler
Marking pen or pencil
Sewing machine

First cut off those pesky outside bands off the short sides.  They are really really tough to sew through.  It's not good when you have to sew them into seams.

Fold the two now cut sides together and pin.  I used my favorite marking device, a dress makers chalk wheel and marked in two inches from the edge.  Sew along this line and then

Trim the excess near the edge, leaving 1/4 to 1/2 in seam.

Open up your hand towel,  The seam you just made in in the middle vertically here.

(Pretend you're ignoring all the fuzz that comes off onto the floor as well)

Pin one edge up about 1/2 an inch or so.  The inside of the towel and the seam is showing at the bottom there.   Sew in the middle of your turned edge.

Find the center of larger towel and use a pin to mark it

Lay your hand towel hood with the sewn edge on top (the raw unfinished seam is still showing at the bottom, the same orientation as above) and match up your middle seams placing the larger towel on top of the hood.

Sew along the band of the larger towel all down the length of the hood.  This will enclose the edge you flipped up on the hood.

The kids love their towels and now I'm trying to figure out how to make adult sized hooded towels as well.  I'll report back later on those.

More sewing and more projects coming up.