Monday 29 April 2013

Hooded baby towels

We have huge amount of towels, I have tried to reduce their number by donating the not so nice ones and making rags of the really worn ones, but still we have too many. For the kid I made hooded towels from our own towels. I took three towels from the closet and cut from each of them a big square piece and one triangle. I first made the regular white one from a towel we have apparently stolen from a cruise ship (ups, sorry). It had the shipping company's logos on it and it was bit embarrassing to use. I cut off the logos and made the hooded towel from the rest. I used an bias tape on all the edges. I did want to use some other colour, but the brown was the only one I had enough of.


The white was a bit of a practice towel but the next ones I made funnier. In a book Strömsö there is a towel made for much bigger child, it's a orange towel with pointy ears and a white tail, the towel is like a fox. So from that I got the idea of making other animal towels. First I chose to make a frog from a green towel we had. The green towel had a pair from a light blue towel and since I did not want to leave that without a match I wanted to use the blue towel as well. I had bit of trouble figuring what character to make from the blue one, but I chose to make a shark from it. I think the towels turned out super cute and fun. 



There could have been so many options on what characters or animals I could have made from different coloured towels. I was also thinking of making some kind of monster from a lilac towel, but how many hooded towels does a kid need!


6 comments:

  1. What a great idea to use your old towels! I LOVE the animals, they're adorable. I probably wouldn't be able to stop making them either. :)

    Also Pinning this, because it's such a great idea to make as gifts.

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    1. I know! So fun. Sometimes it's good that we have not donated all the things we do not need.
      Thanks for pinning.

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  2. Oh these are great. We have a very limited number of towels (because of storage issues), but now I know what to (try to) do with them when I am ready to buy new ones.

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    1. Especially if you have lots of mismatched towels (like we do) then it's worthwhile to make something from them.
      These were really easy to make. No difficult sewing at all, just the way I like it.

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  3. Ihania! Teetkö meillekin tuollaisen monsteripyyhkeen? :)

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    1. Aikuisten vai lasten kokoa? Mihin lähetän :D

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