DIY Hooded Towel | Animal Hooded Towel Step-By-Step | Great Gift Idea

How to sew a hooded dog towel. This same method can be used for other animal themed hoodie towels for children. These hooded towel are perfect handmade gifts for baby showers and children's Christmas gifts. See more at https://www.howpage.org/sewing-and-cr...

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all right today we are going to be making this year's hoodie towels for my three kids titus micah and clara and these are new color schemes um our old hoodie towels are looking a little bit warm and they've been patched together a few times and so we are going to make some new ones so the uh supplies that you will use are a regular bath towel a hand towel uh not the washcloth kind but the you know the longer kind and some scraps of different materials that might coordinate i brought out some purples some old burp claws and even baby blankets as well as other scraps just to see what i'm going to use i use some regular washcloths to make these ones last time and i'm just going to experiment this time all right so the first thing that i do is figure out the hood part of it and so i'm going to be making this for my almost two-year-old toddler and she wanted a dog but uh last time i made it i did not do an animal and i used kind of the bottom part of the towel up top for decoration you don't have to use that part and so this time around i'm going to make it a little bit taller this one is about 5 inches from the top of the hood to where i stitch it into the towel and this one time i'm going to use about six and a half inches and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to whatever side you want out you will put on the inside and sew kind of the corners up here and have a rounded look some people like to leave it square um and take it in as needed i usually just use the full width of it of the hand towel before i start sewing i am going to switch my regular needle out for a heavy duty needle what i found is that when sewing through the towel fabric it's pretty thick especially if there is designs on it with other layers of fabric and so i just use the singer heavy duty noodles needles

so that it can go through there a little easier all right i am preparing to stitch a spot on before i actually form the hood and so i'm going to put the the face on and then i'm going to turn it inside out and uh so the ears on with it i'm going to switch to an embroidery stitch you can use a zigzag stitch as well with a very tight

setting oh not that one

right here this one 23 and then i'm going to adjust it to be

a little bit shorter and five is probably good all right when it is done it should look something like this i use three pins to hold mine down it's a little bit wobbly but that's okay uh i don't mind and my girl is not going to mind and then you do the same thing for all of your other pieces and you get them formatted in whatever way you want them to be

and something also to note just make sure that you're using you have a lot of thread because using the embroidery stitch it does especially if they're close together which mine needed to be because i wasn't going to tuck it under you need to use a lot of thread and so uh just make sure you have an abundance on hand so the next step is going to be to put the eyes and the nose on i liked using iron on mending fabric for that and then i would you can see here i still did the embroidery stitch around it because i felt like it would fall off a little bit especially on this particular material that had different ribs and layers rose thicknesses and things and so i'm going to do that next i'm going to put the eyes and the nose on i also decided that i am going to use the sleeves of this onesie which was uh too small and i just cut off the ends of the sleeves in order to make ears and so i'm going to sew those up and turn them inside out and then i i did a stitch inside out on the the cuffs or the ends of the sleeves of the onesie and then turned them inside out and they made nice nice looking little dog ears and so the next step is to finish the hood by doing a curved stitch kind of around you if you want the boxy corner then you could do it that way as well and we're going to tuck the ears if you can see on this one and we want the ears to stick out like this and so we're going to tuck them on the inside where we would like them so i'm going to actually trim out the shape that i want and then pin the ears to the inside and i'll show you what that looks like all right so here i have cut around the edges and i have tucked the ears in so that they will show when i finish sewing around the dog face and that's what we're about to do all right i did not mention this before but um when i sew the hood and when i attach it to the body part of the towel i do uh a double zigzag stitch meaning i zigzag stitch...

and there and there is

the dog hoodie towel head and now we're gonna do the body um to do the body i am just going to cut off a section right here i'm going to leave a little bit extra as i attach it